meld – cvs diff with ease

2012-10-17 1 min read Fedora
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There are couple of ways to make life easier with CVS diff. But here is one that is really good.
First if you haven’t, install meld:

sudo yum install meld

meld is basically a diff viewer and pretty good at it 😉

Now open meld from the menu or from the terminal. And then select New. In the dialog box that appears select “Version Control Browser”. In the Directory box, browse to the folder where you have the code checked out and select ok. And you are all set.

To see the diff with cvs version just double click.

Note: If you are getting issues when you double click, ensure that you do not have any commands for diff in .cvsrc file.

There are other ways of doing this, but thats for some other day.

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