switch to a past revision

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:46:24PM +1000 I heard the voice of
Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> As a datapoint, cvs has two logs - 'log' and 'rlog'. IIRC one
> difference is that log shows the current revision and older, and
> rlog shows everything, but I may be making this up here.

I think you're making it up.  'log' shows the log of a file from a
checkout, 'rlog' shows the log of a file from a path in the
repository.

e.g.:

{/my/checkout/somesubdir} % cvs log foo.c
    [foo.c log]

{/somewhere/else} % cvs -d /my/repo rlog somesubdir/foo.c
    [foo.c log]


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