On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:56:54PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi Brooks, > > > Either pack the files up in a shar or tarball or use diff -N against > > /dev/null to create that part of the diff by hand. FWIW, CVS wouldn't > > do it for you even if you could add the files. > > It would. This has been a problem for me either and I finally switched > to have my own CVS repository belonging to my user. This is a great > waste of disk space, but this is how CVS works. I think however this > could be corrected without much pain because as far as I can remember, > an ``add'' command will just add a line to CVS/Entries without > even touching the repository, until the change is commited.
You are correct. CVS's unhelpful message by default: cvs diff: foo is a new entry, no comparison available mislead me to believe that -N wasn't supported. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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