>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> Hmm diff/merge, one short question, as you might have Christian> understood Linux/unix and it's tools are not my main Christian> expertise .-) Christian> Does not linux come with a diff-tool? "diff" has been a *standard* utility program on all Unices for decades. Christian> Is not that difftool used by cvs? I think CVS handles the trivial cases itself, and delegates the difficult cases to "diff". Christian> If so, if you have 2 full versions of the same file on Christian> the harddisk and run this difftool would not the output Christian> of that difftool be the same as what cvs will give you? Other than a few addition lines printed by CVS indicating the revision numbers being diff'ed, the result is the same. Christian> in the end, you can still use diff/merge even without Christian> cvs, Yes. And we have 'patch' to do the merge. There's also diff3. Christian> however cvs does this for you, and it keeps the Christian> files smaller on the harddisc... More importantly, it knows which diff-result to apply to which revision. And it handles branching and tagging. -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´°(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs