[cvsnt] Re: Determine What files have changed on a branch

[Torsten Martinsen]

Oliver Giesen wrote:

>"BASE refers to the revision you last checked out into the current
>working directory."
>
>Something entirely different then I should think. On top of that,
>something I couldn't really come up with a sane use for off the top of
>my head...
>
Oh yes: "cvs diff" implicitly compares BASE against the sandbox version. 
If you want to use an external diff program, you check out BASE into a 
temporary file and compare that to the sandbox file.

TortoiseCVS does this.

-Torsten