colordiff & "cvs diff -u" [Was: Re: When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?]

[Mike A. Harris]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 13:06 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Peter Gordon wrote:
>>> $ cvs diff -u branch-dir/ | colordiff | less -R
>>>
>>> Of course, this is very tedious to type
>> /usr/bin/cdiff (in the colordiff package) would simplify that a bit :)
> 
> Er, thanks for the suggestion; but..
> 
> Unfortunately, it comes with no man/info page. If I try its --help
> option, it shows me the help output for gzip (eh? O_o). 

Interestingly enough, I did "yum install colordiff", and rpm was my 
friend at finding the documentation.  ;o)

rpm -ql <package>	- list all files in package
rpm -qd <package>	- list documentation for package
rpm -qc <package>	- list config files for package


> In amusing twist of irony, Google is not helpful either. (It gives me
> results for the C. difficile toxin which is apparently a sign of very
> bad gastrointestinal happenings...)
> 
> Where would I find appropriate documentation for this tool? I know I'm
> missing something somewhere but it's 3:36 AM right now and my brain's
> not entirely efficient. T_T

rpm can be your friend too!  ;oP

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