Re: CVS Diff Problem

[Prashant]

Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.2107.1091126158.1960.bug-cvs@gnu.org>...
> Prashant wrote:
> 
> >lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com (Larry Jones) wrote in message 
> >news:<mailman.1988.1091068747.1960.bug-cvs@gnu.org>...
> >  
> >
> >>Jim.Hyslop writes:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Only use 'cvs import' to import a third-party source tree. Don't use it to
> >>>initially populate your repository of your own files.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Why not?  That's the easiest way to get an existing source tree into CVS
> >>regardless of whether it's third-party sources or your own.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Did you just type in random CVS revisions, or are the revisions you
> >>>mentioned here the actual revisions causing you problems? If they are the
> >>>actual revisions, then even a 'cvs -nq up' will not show anything, because
> >>>the other user checked in his/her changes on a different branch.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Not so.  In this particular case (revisions 1.1.1.1 and 1.2), one
> >>revision is on the vendor branch and the other is on the trunk.  Part of
> >>the vendor branch magic is to automatically switch from the vendor
> >>branch to the trunk as soon as something is committed to the trunk, so
> >>'cvs -nq up' *will* show that an update is required in this case.
> >>
> >>-Larry Jones
> >>
> >>I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. -- Calvin
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The thing is that I already know that it needs a patch/merge/update
> >because doing a cvs status on it will tell me that.  Isn't there a
> >setting or command to make it diff against the head of the trunk
> >without specifying it everytime?
> >  
> >
> 
> No.  Diffing against BASE is the most common usage and thus the
> default.  I suppose you could specify "diff -rHEAD" in your ~/.cvsrc,
> but you would have to remember to run cvs with the global -f option when
> you wanted to run diff in any other mode after that.
> 
> Derek

Is there a predefined HEAD variable (or some equivalent) in cvs? or do
I have to tag it every time?