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Re: option: "-D today" needed
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: option: "-D today" needed |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:43:50 -0400 (EDT) |
david koski writes:
>
> When executing "cvs diff", no output is produced. Well, not exactly.
> Only "cvs server: Diffing ." is produced. But when executing "cvs
> diff -D today", I get the expected results, that is a list of
> differences.
That's because diff compares the working directory to the revisions that
were checked out, *not* the most recent revisions in the repository. If
you want to compare with the most recent revisions, use "-r HEAD". If
you don't care about diffs but just want to know what's new, use "cvs -n
update".
-Larry Jones
Even my FRIENDS don't do what I want. -- Calvin