CVSMGDIFF(1)

📦 version 1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ CVSMGDIFF(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the manual page for cvsmgdiff, a lil utility script from the Utility Scripts corner of the 3rd Berkeley Distribution. yes, it's giving "buried treasure in your man directory." let's go 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

cvsmgdiff — uses mgdiff to display differences between any two cvs revisions.

like, it diffs your cvs stuff and shows it to you in a pretty graphical window. no cap. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cvsmgdiff [-v⎪-h⎪-g gui⎪-r rev1 [-r rev2]] file ...

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

This manual page documents briefly the cvsmgdiff program. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. 😭 yes, they had to write a whole manpage from scratch because the og author didn't leave one. iconic behaviour, honestly.

This script lets you recursively diff the CVS directories you have checked out. To use, just pass in an optional revision level (or two!) and an optional file directory name. This script then will show you the differences you're interested in. ✨

so the vibe is: you point it at stuff, it shows you what changed. main character energy for your repo. 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -v — Print version information successfully. ✅ she tells you what version she is. slay.
  • -h — Print help information. 🫶 the classic "help me pls" flag.
  • -g gui — Use the program gui as the user interface (default: /usr/bin/mgdiff). 🌈 so if you want a different gui than the default one, this is your moment.
  • -r revision — Specify the CVS revision to view. 📌 If just one -r option is given, view differences between that revision and the current file in the CVS working directory. If two -r options are given, compare those two revisions with each other. 💀 (yes, one flag, two whole personalities depending on how many times you say it. she contains multitudes.)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

cvsmgdiff appears to have been written by Paul Serice. 🌟

This manual page was written by Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but may be used by others. It was written with the assistance of pod2man(1). 💜 (shoutout to pod2man, the real mvp of manpage generation, iykyk.)

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this came to you from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, filed under Utility Scripts, and it's the CVSMGDIFF(1) manual page. no date on the original footer, so we're just gonna vibe with it. bye bye, go diff something cute 🦋💖

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