> I would say "cvs status" is a much shorter and quicker way to find the > current revision number of a given file.
Yes, but it is the previous revision number I need, not the current. > Personally I almost always have a $Id (or equivalent) line > somewhere in (usually at the top or bottom) my source files, > and since I'm usually looking at the file in an editor buffer > when I want to know it's revision number, a simple cursor > jump command will find it. Since I almost always use CVS from > PCL-CVS, thus also from within my editor, I then just jump to > the *cvs* buffer and run the diff command with the appropriate > parameter. Thanks, but this doesn't help (I didn't even know what PCL-CVS was until this email; now that I do it still doesn't help as I don't use emacs :) ). I'm not in an editor when I need to do this, I'm at the command line. > There was a discussion long ago about naming conventions for magic > tags like "HEAD", and your proposed "PREV". Unfortunately we've gone > through more than enough releases in the mean time to have migrated to > those new conventions, ane yet the migration was never done. I sure > as heck wouldn't want yet another magic name that didn't follow the > proposed convention to be introduced and then have to wait indefinitely > again to have it renamed too! :-) Well, I'm new to CVS, so I don't know the discussions to which you're referring, nor do I know what you mean by "those new conventions". The PREV was just a method of communicating what I was after; I don't care what the name is, just a way to specify the previous revision without having to know the actual revision number. > On the other hand a small wrapper script could combine the > "status/diff" into one command.... In my case I could easily write > an editor macro to do the same, though I don't find the current method > too much of a burden. Yes, I've thought about writing a perl script to do the log/diff (again, I need the previous revision, not the current one). I guess that's what I'll do; I just thought I'd see if I was the only one that wants to do this on a regular basis. And perhaps I am. :) Thanks again, Vince _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
