Mark Hewitt writes: > > In the CVS (1.11.1pl1) source, the GNU option '--exclude' is > explicitly omitted from the command line parser data structures > with a comment saying it did not seem applicable for CVS.
That's because CVS only diffs two files at a time -- the recursion is handled by CVS, not by diff. > The problem is that if this build directory exists when I do the > 'cvs diff -r <last_tag>', then the diff aborts telling me there > is no version in the repository for 'build'. So the ideal fix is > for me to tell diff to exclude this part of the tree, but I cannot > because cvs will not pass that one on. No, you need to tell CVS to exclude that part of the tree. Have you tried creating a .cvsignore file in the parent directory that lists the build directory? -Larry Jones Physical education is what you learn from having your face in someone's armpit right before lunch. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
