"Following -stable", changes unknown until cvs checkout?

[Josh Grosse]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:53:13PM -0800, Daybreak Breakdaze wrote:
> 
> ...As far as I can tell, there is no way to see if
> changes have been made to the patch branch until the
> source is checked out?
> 
> In other words there is no release tag available for
> the cvs "status" or "diff" command, and the
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?only_with_tag=OPENBSD_3_1#dirlist
>  is out of date.

$ cd /usr/src 
$ cvs diff -u -r OPENBSD_4_2_BASE -r OPENBSD_4_2

The diff command needs to be run with a working directory, /usr/src in
that example, but it will not use it when conducting comparisons of
two tags, as shown in the example.