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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

  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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