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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: [Q] cvs diff *
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
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	i want to cvs diff an entire directory.

	"cvs diff *" fails.

Aspen:[24] cvs diff *
cvs diff: Diffing CVS
cvs diff: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory

	huh?  

Aspen:[25] ls -Flag CVS/Entries
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  1540 Aug 26 06:39 CVS/Entries
Aspen:[26] id
uid=1000(jmb) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel), 117(dialer)

	cant even diff a single file!

Aspen:[36] cvs diff vm_page.c
Aspen:[37] grep vm_page.c,v vm_page.c
 *      $Id: vm_page.c,v 1.62 1996/07/30 03:08:15 dyson Exp $
Aspen:[35] head -1 /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c,v
head    1.63;

	but if i spec a revision to diff against, it works!

Aspen:[39] cvs diff -c -r1.63 vm_page.c | more
Index: vm_page.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c,v
retrieving revision 1.63
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -c -r1.63 -r1.62

	this behavior does not match the man page (as i read it)

Aspen:[40] cvs --version

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.8.1 (client/server)

	how do i get it to work?

jmb