---
name: "cvsmgdiff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mgdiff"
version: "1.0+debian1-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cvsmgdiff"
---

# cvsmgdiff(1)

uses mgdiff to display differences between any two cvs revisions.

## NAME

cvsmgdiff - uses mgdiff to display differences between any two cvs revisions.

## SYNOPSIS

**cvsmgdiff** \[**-v**⎪**-h**⎪**-g** *gui*⎪**-r** *rev1* \[**-r** *rev2*\]\] *file* ...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly  the cvsmgdiff program. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the  original program does not have a manual page.

This script lets you recursively diff the CVS directories you have checked out.  To use, just pass in an optional revision levels and an optional file directory name.  This script then will show you the differences you're interested in.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Print version information successfully\

- **-h**

  Print help information\

- **-g** *gui*

  Use the program *gui* as the user interface (default: */usr/bin/mgdiff*)\

- **-r** *revision*

  Specify the CVS revision to view.  If just one **-r** option is given, view differences between that revision and the current file in the CVS working directory.  If two **-r** options are given, compare those two revisions with each other.

## AUTHOR

cvsmgdiff appears to have been written by Paul Serice. This manual page was written  by  Ian Zimmerman \<itz@speakeasy.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but may be used by others.  It was written with the assistance  of [*pod2man*(1)](/pod2man/1.md).