From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 16:53:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742FA16A424 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:53:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E08543D48 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j88GrblS020190; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:53:37 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j88Grb2U020188; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:53:37 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:53:37 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Jeremie Le Hen Message-ID: <20050908165337.GD31354@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050907133239.GA53278@node26.0xfce3.net> <20050907162334.GB19958@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050908145654.GP659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rz+pwK2yUstbofK6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050908145654.GP659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: Gordon Bergling , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to handling read only cvs trees X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:53:41 -0000 --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--