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Stephan Linz linz-at-mazet.de |u-boot-users| wrote: | Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 01:29 schrieb Stephen Williams: | |>--snipp-- |> |>"cvs diff -puRN" does not include new files, the -N flag is |>useless in that context as cvs does not know of those files |>so does not even try to diff them. You will need to accept | | | Are you realy right ? The CVS short help 'cvs --help diff' says: | | " -N include diffs for added and removed files." | | The man page of GNU diff says: | | " -N | --new-file | In directory comparison, if a file is found in only one directory, treat | it as present but empty in the other directory." | |
If I had write access to the repository, then I could "cvs add" the files and then use "cvs diff -N" to get the desired patch. But then, if I had write acces to the repository, I could just add it without patches flying about:-)
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