[M3devel] Another CVS question, getting a specific version of a specific file

[Rodney M. Bates]

Thanks, that did it.

Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
>
>> Yet again, I need some CVS help.  I want to get complete copies
>> of m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/function.c, versions 1.7 and 1.6, just to
>> look at for inspiration.  I can't find anything in my CVS book
>> that looks like it will do this.  checkout works on projects,
>> not files, update will merge with what's in my working directory,
>> which I really don't want, and I expect diff will overwhelm me,
>> since 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8 of this file are taken from gcc
>> 3.4.5, 4.1.1, and 4.3.0, respectively.  Is there any direct way?
>
> Use 'cvs update' and -P option (and -r of course). This sends the file 
> to standard output and is "not sticky".