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Gugussee
Gugussee

Reputation: 1713

CVS: command-line diff on a remote CVS server between two HEAD revs

My CVS-fu is not very strong anymore (after years of SVN'ing and now Mercurial'ing). I'm trying to do a diff between two revisions of the HEAD branch (everything is in the HEAD anyway).

I received an IDE already set up to use a :pserver:myname@cvsserver:port/cvs/project CVS. I'm on Windows XP. I do not want to use the IDE (the goal here is to learn CVS a bit more).

Apparently I cannot login using SSH to the CVS server.

How can I run a remote CVS diff between two HEAD revs using the command line?

P.S: I am new here, mod me up so I can comment etc. :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1242

Answers (1)

jamesmortensen
jamesmortensen

Reputation: 34038

Is there any particular reason you want to learn more CVS after experiencing the wonders of SVN and Mercurial? In this industry, the opportunity cost of learning an outdated and difficult-to-use technology is that you forego the opportunity to learn something new and potentially more useful.

You may of course have a good reason, such as company requirements or other things outside of your control :(

With that said, this resource essentially serves as a CVS guidebook and a reference to many CVS command line tools. It looks like you can see differences between revisions on the HEAD, but only one file at a time.

http://kuparinen.org/martti/comp/cvs/cvs.html#8

  [Show changes between two versions]
  # cvs diff -u -r 1.42 -r 1.43 filename
  # cvs diff -u -r BEFORE-XYZ -r HEAD [filename]

Upvotes: 1

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