Re: Finding all really changed files for a branch tag in a

[Larry Jones]

Todd Denniston writes:
> 
> Assuming you created a normal tag (NTAG) and then used that to create the
> branch tag [1] , and that you have a normal tag on the head of the branch
> (BHEAD) [2].

You don't need a normal tag on the head of the branch.  When you use the
branch tag itself for a revision, you get the head of the branch.

> I believe you should be able to at a prompt inside of a branch checkout
> issue:
> 
> cvs diff -N --brief -rNTAG -rBHEAD | \
> grep -e "^Index:" -e "^Files" > ListOfDelta.txt

It's much simpler to just use rdiff -s:

        cvs rdiff -s -rbranch-root -rbranch module

-Larry Jones

Years from now when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in
prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. -- Calvin