From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Message-ID: <m3hbxxx5jk.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1e56aa11-735a-47f7-a273-5b6bf611f528@n11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>

dtletmn <dtletmedn@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,All,
> 
>      I am wondering if cvs has an easy way to compare a file with its
> previous version.
> 
>      In clearcase,I can use  :
>        cleartool diff -pred file.cc
> 
>      how can I acheive it in CVS?
>      any help would be highly appreciated!

In CVS or in Git?

In CVS: "cvs diff -r <previous revision> <file>".
In Git: "git diff HEAD^ -- <file>".

Both assume that you want to compare with version from previous
commit.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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