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CVS question
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: CVS question
- From: Bernd Schmidt <crux at pool dot informatik dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:32:42 +0200 (MET DST)
The huge size of egcs-1.0.3a-1.1.diff gave me the idea to try and use the
egcs CVS server for getting a patch against the latest snapshot. The cvsweb
interface apparently only supports generating diffs between two revisions of
a single file. So I examined the histories for tags to use, and used the
following command:
cvs rdiff -r egcs_ss_19980824 -r egcs_1_1_prerelease egcs
(after logging in, obviously). Unfortunately, I got the response
cvs [server aborted]: "patch" requires write access to the repository
Can someone enlighten me as to why this needs _write_ access? Am I simply
doing something stupid, or is the rdiff command not supported?
Bernd