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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:08:00 +0100, "John Hall" <john-news1 at cambridgetechgroup.com> wrote: >One thing that would be useful is to do a diff between a commitid and the >previous versions of each file in question, i.e. to display what was changed >by a commit. As far as I can tell, at the moment, you can only do something >like: > > cvs diff -r @abcxxxxxx -r @xyzxxxxxxx > >Is what I want possible? > Anything you can do with a tag, you can do with a commit id (just think of them as automatic tags)... Unfortunately one thing that's missing from CVS is relative tags (it's on my list of things to look at, because it can potentially be very useful). You could probably write a script to do what you want (get the revisions for the commit IDs and manually diff between them and the previous ones). Tony