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RE: How to generate a patch for a new file?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:33:03 +0100
- Subject: RE: How to generate a patch for a new file?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Christopher
> Sent: 21 April 2004 19:29
[ Just sent this reply offlist to cgd, but I might as well send it to the
list if other people are going to raise the objection also... ]
> > That didn't WFM when I last tried it, because cvs didn't
> even call out to
> > diff for new files that hadn't been "cvs add"ed yet; it
> just listed them on
> > lines beginning with '?' at the start of the output.
>
> Yeah. You need to cvs add first as cgd said.
>
> -eric
Indeed, that is as you say.
And if you don't have write-access to the sourceware CVS, your only way of
getting a file added to it is by submitting it as a patch.
Now do you see why it's a catch-22? <g>
cheers,
DaveK
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