How to generate a patch for a new file?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:21:13AM -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:12:01 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Barada" wrote:
> > I've got some new testcases for the ColdFire mac/emac instructions, and
> > I'm trying to figure out the best way to generate a patch that incudes
> > the new files as well as the modified files.
> 
> if you have write access to the repository from your CVS checkout
> area, just 'cvs add' the files -- nothing will happen until you
> commit.
> 
> Otherwise, if you drop a line into your CVS entries file like:
> 
> /FILE_NAME_GOES_HERE/0/dummy timestamp//
> 
> for each added file, CVS will consider them added and they'll be
> included in 'cvs diff -N' output.
> 
> (Yes, "yuck."  8-)

You can also use "cvsdo add" from the cvsutils package - real handy for
this sort of thing.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer