Todd Denniston wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've created a little python script to produce patches from log
> > messages - i.e.:
> > patchmaker "Bug 123"
> >
> > But it breaks down when the revision is the very first revision.
> > Usually it makes diffs like this:
> > cmd = "cvs -q diff -u -r %s -r %s %s" % (self.prevrev, self.rev, fobj)
> >
> > e.g.:
> > cvs -q diff -u -r 1.4.7.8 -r 1.4.7.7 somefile
> >
> > But there's no previous rev to the first rev - and you can't do
> > cvs -q diff -u -r 0 -r 1.1 somefile
> >
> > Help appreciated!
> how about when self.prevrev==0
> cvs diff -u --new-file -D"1 Jan 1970" -r1.1 somefile

Genius!

It may be because we use the windoze cvsnt server here but with a
slight change:
cvs -q diff -u --new-file -D "2000-01-01" -r 1.1 somefile
(our db is not that old)

It works. Thx!

Holger

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