Hello, In your working directory, you can issue:
cvs diff to get the changes against the version you checked out last year, and cvs diff -r HEAD to get the diffs against the latest version of emacs. To update your repository to the latest version and get a chance to locally merge your changes with that latest version, use cvs update HTH -- Sylvain On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:53:14PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote: > I checked it out last year. > Now I want to update my copy. > However I don't want it to erase > my changes which I have yet to send in. > So I thought, hmm, seems one can say 'diff' > where previously one said 'co' and it will show > what changes have been made since I checked it out. > > Perhaps I'm thinking in terms of concepts which to not apply > in the weird twilight zone of CVS? I have put CVS for Dummies > on my reading list. Meanwhile I see the 'co' command works fine > so I'll keep two copies of emacs source for lack of a better idea. > > Peace > --Devon > /~\ > \ / Health Care > X not warfare > / \ > > Dubya won the digital vote > Kerry won the popular vote > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:14:15 +0200 > From: Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Devon Sean McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: shell] > Mail-Followup-To: Devon Sean McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, > > You found the right instructions page, so I'm relieved that it indeed > can be found easily. > > Now, your problem more resides in the use of the cvs tool. We do not > provide instructions for using CVS itself, because CVS already comes > with documentation and Savannah makes no non-standard use of CVS. > > I am not sure on what you want to do here. You attempt to use the > 'diff' command. Have you already done a checkout (command 'co' > described in the instructions page) of the repository? What do you > want to diff against? Your commands seems to try to do too many things > at once. > > Also, the CVS setup didn't change since last year, so maybe there's a > bug somewhere. Is your quoted command what you used to type last year? > > -- > Sylvain > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote: > > Sylvain, > > > > Thanks for replying. With no anonymous CVS access, how can I hack? > > CVS is an evil black box to me, so please keep it simple. > > > > Google (emacs anonymous cvs) --[I'm feeling lucky]--> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs > > > > $ export CVS_RSH="ssh" > > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/emacs diff emacs > > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs > > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/webcvs/emacs diff emacs > > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs > > $ > > > > It worked last year, what's the incantation now? > > > > Peace > > --Devon > > /~\ > > \ / Health Care > > X not warfare > > / \ > > > > Dubya won the digital vote > > Kerry won the popular vote > > > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:18:20 +0200 > > From: Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hello (I don't know your real name). > > > > I adjusted a link that pointed to the FAQs list instead of a specific > > answer, but we were already told the CVS instructions are hard to > > find, and we thought we had fixed this issue back then. > > > > Would you be so kind to try and find the instructions to perform an > > anonymous access of the Emacs project, and explain what was difficult, > > and possibly suggest a better way to present the information? > > > > Thanks and best regards, > > > > -- > > Sylvain > > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:17:27AM -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > > > Can you make it easier to find these instructions? > > > It appears to be too hard. > > > > > > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:51:55 -0400 (EDT) > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Subject: Re: shell > > > > > > From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:38:42 -0400 > > > > > > Savannah has instructions about how to do anonymous access. > > > Please take a look, they should be easy to find. > > > > > > They aren't. > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- _______________________________________________ Savannah-help-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
