Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:23:34 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to handling read only cvs trees Message-ID: <20050907162334.GB19958@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050907133239.GA53278@node26.0xfce3.net> References: <20050907133239.GA53278@node26.0xfce3.net>
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:32:39PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently working to get an old patch up to HEAD, but I have a problem
> with generating a diff from my work.
>
> I usually checkout out src from a local cvs mirror of the FreeBSD
> repository. I do this with
>
> cvs -Rd/home/ncvs checkout src
>
> Without the -R flag I must do the checkout as root to create a read
> lock.
>
> The changes are easly diff'ed with
>
> cvs -Rd/home/ncvs checkout -uN > ../path/to/release.{patch|diff}
>
> I added new files in existing directories with 'cvs add' so that
> these files are included in the generated patch.
>
> The problem I am faced with is that there are new directories with new
> files (a lot) and these files are not included in the patch. I tried to
> 'cvs add' the directories, but I am not allowed the create the
> directories in /home/ncvs. Sure I just could fire up sudo to do the
> work, but I am afraid that cvsup, which I use to mirror the cvs
> repository, could delete them with the next scheduled run.
>
> Has anyone a hint on how to handle this situation?
Either pack the files up in a shar or tarball or use diff -N against
/dev/null to create that part of the diff by hand. FWIW, CVS wouldn't
do it for you even if you could add the files.
-- Brooks
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