Re: How to diff branch sandbox against tip of trunk?

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Nelson,

* On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 03:58:29AM -0700 Nelson Bolyard wrote:

> It seems that when I'm working on sources in a "sandbox" that was checked
> out from a branch, there's no easy way to diff those sandbox files with 
> the files on the tip of the trunk.  It seems that while I'm working in the
> branch sandbox, HEAD means "This branch's branch tag", not "tip of trunk".

This is correct.

Because of this, some people add a special tag to their repository:

  "cvs tag -r1 REALHEAD"

This way, they can diff against the "real" head by doing a

  "cvs diff -r REALHEAD"

HTH,
   Spiro.

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