When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 22:21 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Do November 8 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:40 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > > On Mi November 7 2007, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> > > > And second, I doubt in usefull status of this feature. IMHO, in
> > > > practice (another words 'very often') you need to make diff between
> > > > vcs' *.spec and current. You just make copy *.spec to *.spec.orig and
> > > > use simple diff command.
> > >
> > > How can I do this when I have uncommited changes in the spec, but there
> > > is a newer version in the repository?
> >
> > How is that a problem with CVS? With CVS you typically work on a
> > checkout, so it's up to you how to handle mergers.
> 
> Where do I get the specfile that I could copy to .spec.orig to create a diff 
> in this case? E.g. following the described procedure:
> 
> cvs commit && cp -a *.spec *.spec.orig
> vim *.spec
> cvs up *.spec
> [now changes from the repository are merged]
> 
> How can I now do a diff that shows the changes between my working copy and the 
> contents of the repository?
cvs diff -u *.spec

Ralf