From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: dtletmn <dtletmedn@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version?
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:28:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4A9FA5.7000009@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbxxx5jk.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On 06/30/2009 02:36 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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>".
I think he wants something more like
git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h` <file> -- <file>
In CVS it should not be hard, but I definitely have no idea.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 7:41 Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version? dtletmn
2009-06-30 11:32 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-30 12:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-30 23:28 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2009-07-01 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-02 18:04 ` Eric Raible
2009-07-03 6:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-06 23:39 ` Eric Raible
2009-07-07 19:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-01 0:29 ` dtletmn
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