Re: Compare tags and include duplicates?

[Jim Hyslop]

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address@hidden wrote:
> I am trying to use "cvs rdiff -s" to find the files that were changed
> between two tags. My problem is that it compares the content of the
> files, and skips a file if the content is the same between the two
> versions. But I'd like to include these duplicates. In other words, if
> a tag was moved from version 1.1 to version 1.3 but the content is the
> same, I still want to see that as a difference. Is this possible?

"A difference which makes no difference is no difference."

(Attributed to various mathematicians, philosophers, authors and sci-fi
characters.)

If the contents of the revisions are the same, does it really matter
which revision the tags point at?

You could generate a list of revisions of tag A, a list of revisions of
tag B, and compare the lists.

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