How to generate a patch for a new file?

[Dave Korn]

> -----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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