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> References: <20050907133239.GA53278@node26.0xfce3.net> <20050907162334.GB19958@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050908145654.GP659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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--rz+pwK2yUstbofK6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --rz+pwK2yUstbofK6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDIGyQXY6L6fI4GtQRArAjAJ9VkNFUsQYZyJEHFNPqybx1H3oBDQCgqdnz BKQBoNpcVMkpJ0QmKrrgl/0= =Lb77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rz+pwK2yUstbofK6--
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