CVS add question...

[David Daney]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>>>You can use `cvs add'.  To generate diffs for new files, use the -N
>>>option to `cvs diff'.
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>>When I do:
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>>cvs diff -3up -N
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>>I don't get the new files (not even those that are in existing directories).
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>That command should show you any file in an existing directory for
>which you have run `cvs add'.  If not, then something strange is
>happening.
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Oh.  You have to add them first!.

>>Q: How to proceed?
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>Probably just do `diff /dev/null NEWFILE' for each file you want to
>add, and concatenate those all to the diff.  Or just send the new
>files.  It sort of depends upon what the appropriate maintainer wants
>to see.
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>Ian
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Not the optimal solution, but workable.

David Daney.

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