How to generate a patch for a new file?

Ben Elliston bje@au.ibm.com
Thu Apr 22 01:41:00 GMT 2004


"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>   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>

You can use diff by hand instead: diff -N /dev/null newfile and
incorporate this into the patch submission message.

Ben




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