cvs diff howto?

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Svein E. Seldal wrote:

> 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...)

Why go through all that trouble?
Is it really worth it compared to:
 diff -cpN /dev/null new_file
and
 diff -cprN an_empty_dir_you_just_made new_dir_with_files
?

brgds, H-P