[ic] diffing IC with cvs?

Jon Jensen interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Oct 26 18:21:01 2002


On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Rene Hertell wrote:

> I somehow don't understand the procedure in how to check the DIFFerence
> between my local cvs-directory and that the development version.
[snip]
> I know that running "cvs update -dP" updates my local cvs-files, but that
> does not show me the code that has been changed. I would be happy if someone
> could give me a clue what I'm doing wrong.

CVS diff by default shows the changes you've made since you checked out 
your copy. To see what's changed in the repository since you checked out, 
try:

cvs diff -D now

Although I've been told this is better to cover time zone differences:

cvs diff -D tomorrow

Jon