On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:31, J. Grant wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :)
> 
> I have been unable to get "cvs diff -uN" to work, the -N flag should 
> include new files in the patch.  I can not add files to the local 
> repository with "cvs add" which I believe I should be able to. I do not 
> have a cvs account on this project, so i just checkout as guest.  It is 
> wierd that "cvs add" does not work, and the -N flag does not work 
> either.  cvs server and client are both under a few weeks old.
> 


You probably need to do this on the directory level to get those new
files or add the recursive switch. Another way is to check out a
pristine copy alongside your version the run a recursive patch against
the directory.

diff -urN /pristine_dir /changed_dir > filename.patch


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