[SGVLUG] Revision Control Systems - diff

[Robert Leyva]

You can install GNU diff (diffutils) into M$ systems.

I like to go to the top of my development tree and do things like:
diff -urb | tee /tmp/diff.txt to see what has changed compared to my
snapshot on my harddrive with the CVS repository.

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/


> Hi Claude,
>
> I use Eclipse to create new modules, makes everything a click away.  It
> also
> has a comparison function that works well enough.  Any other suggestions
> for
> a good WinMerge type comparison tool under DOS (my pet name for any
> Microsoft OS)?
>
> Matt
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
>> Behalf Of Claude Felizardo
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:19 AM
>> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
>> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Revision Control Systems
>>
>> I'm a long time user of CVS.  Started with SCCS when I first started
>> on Unix but someone on the project had written shell script wrappers
>> so I never learned the actual commands.  A few people here at work
>> have pushed for switching to subversion but they could never get
>> enough buy-in to get their projects to switch.  A big concern was that
>> it wasn't clear if we could migrate our CVS revision history.
>>
>> As for starting a new repository or module in CVS, yeah it's a pain as
>> it's something you do only once in a while so I always have to dig up
>> the manual.  Otherwise most of the time you are using the diff, update
>> -n and log commands.  Lately I've been using LinCVS which makes it
>> trivial to do side by side color coded diffs with your sandbox or any
>> revision of a file for that matter.  It also makes it easier to
>> manipulate tags.
>>
>> >From the SourceForge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lincvs/
>>
>> "LinCVS is a graphical interface for the cvs client on Unix, Windows
>> and Mac OS X. Besides support of most of the cvs commands, LinCVS
>> provides manifoldy graphical support of project maintenance."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM, juanslayton @dslextreme.com
>> <juanslayton at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> > Definitely would be a good meeting topic for me.  I'm going nuts
>> trying to
>> > figure out CVS.
>> > John
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jason Riker <jasonrkr at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Group,
>> >>
>> >> Anyone done a comparison of revision control systems?  My boss wants
>> to
>> >> setup Subversion and I'm just wondering if there's anything better.
>> We'll
>> >> be housing mostly Java/PHP web apps.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Jason
>> >>
>> >> P.S., this might be a good meeting topic if anyone is available.
>> >
>> >
>
>


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Robert Leyva
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