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Re: can different files be diff ed?
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Greg A. Woods |
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Re: can different files be diff ed? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:17:50 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 11:23:28 (-0700), Anshuman Kanwar wrote: ]
> Subject: can different files be diff ed?
>
> So is there any way I could do a cvs diff of 2 different files? Of course, a
> little shell script can check out the files and do the same thing, but it
> would be more clean if cvs could do it.
Why do you think it would be "more clean" if CVS could do it?
>From CVS' point of view such an operation would seem to be extremely
in-elegant.....
(There is "cvs checkout -p", which you can do without creating a working
directory, though unless your platform of choice has fdescfs and you
care to try some tricky file descriptor re-direction you're going to
have to create at least one temporary file anyway, so it's "much
cleaner" just to check out each module into a separate working directory
and then let 'diff -r' do the work for you....)
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