Re: cvs diff howto?

["Svein E. Seldal" <Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com>]

> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > What would be the simplest way for me to submit such patches that 
> > contains both modified and new files? I'm tempted to submit an ordinary 
> > patch for the modified files and a tgz for the new ones. Will that do?
>
> Please don't; instead, you can use such a script, or add dummy entries
> to CVS/Entries by hand.  They look like:
>
> /filename/0/Initial filename//
This has worked fine up until now! Thanks. This time, however, I am 
trying to add an entire directory this way. But this time cvs diff 
really croaks because the pretended dir does not exist on the server

<snip>
cvs server: Diffing tic4x
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for 
`/cvs/src/src/gas/testsuite/gas/tic4x' 
(/cvs/src/src/gas/testsuite/gas/tic4x/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
`/cvs/src/src/gas/testsuite/gas/tic4x'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

How do I get around this one? (And still being able to use cvs diff to 
submit patches with new dirs containing new files...)


Svein