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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:53:37 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to handling read only cvs trees
Message-ID:  <20050908165337.GD31354@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050908145654.GP659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:56:54PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Brooks,
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> It would.  This has been a problem for me either and I finally switched
> to have my own CVS repository belonging to my user.  This is a great
> waste of disk space, but this is how CVS works.  I think however this
> could be corrected without much pain because as far as I can remember,
> an ``add'' command will just add a line to CVS/Entries without
> even touching the repository, until the change is commited.

You are correct.  CVS's unhelpful message by default:

cvs diff: foo is a new entry, no comparison available

mislead me to believe that -N wasn't supported.

-- Brooks

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