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Re: Checkout a file revision to stdout?
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Re: Checkout a file revision to stdout? |
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Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:16:42 -0800 (PST) |
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> Is there any way to checkout a specific revision of a file to standard
> output, rather than creating a file?
>
> The real reason for wanting to do this is to find which revision of a
> file a particular piece of text first appeared.
>
> I wrote a script called rcsgrep a long time ago that checked out files
> on the main trunk only directly from the ,v file in the archive, and
> grepped through each one in turn. So I could use that. I just
> wondered if there was a better way.
>
> luke
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Usage: cvs checkout [-ANPRcflnps] [-r rev | -D date] [-d dir]
[-j rev1] [-j rev2] [-k kopt] modules...
-p Check out files to standard output (avoids stickiness).
Adam
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