How to cvs diff new files?

How to cvs diff new files?

[Borsenkow Andrej]

How to diff new files without first committing them? All that I get is

bor@itsrm2% cvs add _chkconfig
cvs server: nothing known about _chkconfig

and later cvs up/diff just show

bor@itsrm2% cvs up
? Completion/Redhat/Command/_chkconfig

-andrej

Re: How to cvs diff new files?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Apr 19, 10:55am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
} Subject: How to cvs diff new files?
}
} How to diff new files without first committing them? All that I get is
} 
} bor@itsrm2% cvs add _chkconfig
} cvs server: nothing known about _chkconfig

If you really got that message from "cvs add", you are running it in the
wrong directory.  My guess from this:

} and later cvs up/diff just show
} 
} bor@itsrm2% cvs up
} ? Completion/Redhat/Command/_chkconfig

... is that you should run

	cvs add Completion/Redhat/Command/_chkconfig

Then, if you have a new enough version of CVS, you should be able to do

	cvs diff -N -u

to generate a patch that includes the entire new file.  (Older versions
of cvs choke on the -N there.)

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RE: How to cvs diff new files?

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> } bor@itsrm2% cvs add _chkconfig
> } cvs server: nothing known about _chkconfig
> 
> If you really got that message from "cvs add", you are running it in
the
> wrong directory.  My guess from this:
> 
> } and later cvs up/diff just show
> }
> } bor@itsrm2% cvs up
> } ? Completion/Redhat/Command/_chkconfig
> 
> ... is that you should run
> 
> 	cvs add Completion/Redhat/Command/_chkconfig
> 

Strange. I did this first time and it did not work. Then I read cvs
documentation and saw that you can't do it - you must be in target
directory :-) That did not work either. Then I updated cvs to 1.11.2
(had 1.11.1p1 I guess) and it works now - no idea if it is related.

Cheers

-andrej