Useful diff and patch commands:
Create a patch with 3 lines of context and amount of blank lines. I want to see other whitespace difference - it might expose a typo.
diff -u 3 oldfile newfile > patchfile
Use CVS diff to create a patch comparing the local file (newer) with the repository version.
cvs diff [...]
Tags: CVS · Cygwin Linux · Subversion
I recently started using cvs for my web design work - because its the most popular and though subversion is improved, I’ll gain to learn CVS.
References:
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ - online CVS manual - excellent
http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html - more notes
http://durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/node38.html - cvswrappers file
http://www-bcl.cs.unm.edu/computers/cvs.html - notes
#####Starting things up
add this to .bashrc [...]
Tags: CVS