Re: cvs and older versions of a file

2024-05-27 Thread Staffan Thomen
On 5/26/24 12:03, Todd Gruhn wrote: I messed up a .Xresources . How do I tell cvs to give me a previous copy? Did you set up cvs to track your .Xresources file? Or are you referring to a specific resource file from NetBSD? I just want to make sure before you get a long thread of helpful

Re: cvs and older versions of a file

2024-05-26 Thread John McCue
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 09:03:11AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: I messed up a .Xresources . How do I tell cvs to give me a previous copy? It has been a long time since I used cvs, but you can try: % cvs log .Xresources Find the rev you want to diff with then % cvs diff -rREV .Xresources Tha