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J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com> 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), C-x v = (or
"Compare with base version" on the Tools/Version Control menu) will
show you the diffs.