From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PCL-CVS: more diff options Date: 25 Sep 2003 14:08:24 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4036.1064474857@www54.gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064541453 17845 80.91.224.253 (26 Sep 2003 01:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:57:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 26 03:57:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2hrP-0004jx-00 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:57:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2hyp-0004av-00 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2hp1-0005be-KS for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A2hoq-0005bE-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A2hom-0005al-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 1A2hol-0005aR-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2hPN-0002cN-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8PI8PKS017708; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6F3DB3C547; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:08:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: =?utf-8?b?S2FpIEdyb8Ofam9oYW5u?= In-Reply-To: <4036.1064474857@www54.gmx.net> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-MailScanner-DIRO: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16657 > I am in the habit of doing M-x cvs-update RET in the morning. Say that > I then see that the file foo has been updated. Now what I routinely want > to know is what has changed by this update. > WIBNI PCL-CVS offered a convenient way to see this? The problem is that CVS doesn't really offer any way to do that. If the file was locally modified, you can use the most recent .#.. But otherwise, CVS doesn't remember which files were updated and neither does it remember what was the previous revision number. PCL-CVS could try to do that, but for it to work even if you exit/rerun PCL-CVS, we'd need to store it (in CVS/ typically), which I'd rather avoid if possible). What I do instead is to use `dh' *before* updating. It also suffers from problems, such as the race condition (someone might commit something between the `dh' and the update). In any case, patches are always welcome, Stefan