From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: J Krugman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs help for 'cvs commit'? Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: (NONE) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085321439 16752 80.91.224.253 (23 May 2004 14:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 16:10:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRtgJ-0007kX-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 16:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRsuD-0003MN-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 09:20:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1085317296 1671 166.84.1.3 (23 May 2004 13:01:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:01:36 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123378 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18677 In jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com writes: >J Krugman writes: >> I am relatively new to cvs (and to any form of version control >> software). One thing that seems harder than it should be is that >> when one executes a "cvs commit", and cvs prompts one for a message >> to describe the changes made, cvs doesn't provide an easy way to >> review the differences between the new revision and the previous >> one; >Sure it does. cvs diff will show differences. From the source buffer >(C-c f will get you there from the log message buffer), Thanks, but C-c f from the log message buffer just gets me a beep. What's the name of the command that C-c f should have been bound to to get the behavior you describe? > C-x v = (or >"Compare with base version" on the Tools/Version Control menu) will >show you the diffs. OK, I found that. Thanks, jill -- To s&e^n]d me m~a}i]l r%e*m?o\v[e bit from my a|d)d:r{e:s]s.