* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050309 17:06]:
> I'm trying to create the patch for my 440bx stuff but I need some
> help.  I have a bunch of new files that I added in the tree.  So 'cvs
> diff' dosen't know about these files and dosen't show anything on the
> diffs.
> 
> If I check out a new copy of the repository and then diff vs that I
> get loads of changes in the CVS directories.
> 
> Whats the best way to do this?  Can I make diff ignore certain
> directory patterns?  I don't see anything in the man page about
> excluding directories just files.

I always do something like 
cvs update | grep ^? | cut -f2 -d\ |while read name 
do
        diff -uN /dev/null $name >> mypatch.newfiles.diff
done

but it is not exactly elegant


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