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Re: PCL-CVS: more diff options
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: PCL-CVS: more diff options |
Date: |
25 Sep 2003 14:08:24 -0400 |
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> I am in the habit of doing M-x cvs-update RET in the morning. Say that
> I then see that the file foo has been updated. Now what I routinely want
> to know is what has changed by this update.
> WIBNI PCL-CVS offered a convenient way to see this?
The problem is that CVS doesn't really offer any way to do that.
If the file was locally modified, you can use the most recent
.#<file>.<rev>. But otherwise, CVS doesn't remember which files
were updated and neither does it remember what was the previous
revision number. PCL-CVS could try to do that, but for it to work
even if you exit/rerun PCL-CVS, we'd need to store it (in CVS/<something>
typically), which I'd rather avoid if possible).
What I do instead is to use `dh' *before* updating. It also suffers from
problems, such as the race condition (someone might commit something
between the `dh' and the update).
In any case, patches are always welcome,
Stefan