cvsvcs-checkout

How to checkout an older revision of an individual file?

I need to see what a file looks like then it was in revision X, but cvs checkout only accept a whole module as parameter, I don't want to check out the whole module in certain revision, because the whole project is rather big, how can I checkout individual files of a certain revision?

Solution

  • You can specify a filename and a revision to checkout like this:

    cvs co -r rev filename

    For example:

    cvs co -r 1.4.30.1 a/very/large/project/MyFile.h