missing files from snapshot diffs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9709100925.AA13556@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de >you write:
  > Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  > |>   In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970909180022.500A-100000@penguin.home>you wri
  > te:
  > |>   > Please check the egcs-970904-970907.diff.gz file, and you'll find tha
  > t
  > |>   > these files are missing, despite the ChangeLog entries.
  > |> As you noted, the snapshot procedure didn't pick up new files which were
  > |> in new directories (I'll be working on this before the next snapshot).
  > 
  > Why don't you just use the -N switch of diff?
Because I wasn't aware of it :-)

It seems to be a GNU diff extension, which explains why when I did a "man diff"
on my hpux box nothing useful showed up :-)

jeff