Re: cvs diff -uN - issue

[J. Grant]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the swift reply.

on the 10/03/03 17:50, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> J. Grant <jg-web@jguk.org> writes:
>
> > I have not heard anything back from my last email to the
> > cvs-info@gnu.org address, so I hope you might be able to address this issue.
> >
> > Using 1.11.5 server, and 1.11.2 client does not support "cvs diff -uN"
> > correctly. No New files are included in the diff.
> >
> > ? README.PS2Linux
> > ? src/joystick/ps2linux
> > ? test/testactuator.c
> >
> > There are two files and one directory with files inside I need to add.
> >
> > I can not "cvs add" or "cvs import" because I do not have an CVS
> > account, I am only a contributer.
>
> A "cvs add" of a directory does you be able to have permission to commit
> a new directory in the repository.
>
> The "cvs diff -uN" will only diff files that are in your current tree
> that cvs has been told about. These are either files that are cvs
> already knew about when you did the checkout or files that you have told
> it about via a "cvs add" command.
>
> If you have other files in your tree, cvs will ignore them. This is
> intentional.
> > Is this a known issue? Is there a patch for this?
>
> You should be able to "cvs add" new files to your tree even without the
> ability to commit them to the repository as this is a local operation.

These are the commands I have tested with:


$ cvs -d :pserver:guest@libsdl.org:/home/sdlweb/libsdl.org/cvs login
$ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:guest@libsdl.org:/home/sdlweb/libsdl.org/cvs 
checkout SDL12
<snip>
$ cd SDL12
$ cvs add README.PS2Linux
cvs [server aborted]: "add" requires write access to the repository
$ ll README.PS2Linux
-rwxr--r--    1 now3d    now3d         683 Mar  5 12:08 README.PS2Linux*


I can not see why "cvs add" does not work as a local operation in my 
case.  Could you test this yourself and see if you also encounter this 
problem please?



> For the new directory, well, you could just do something like:
>
>     cvs diff -uNp > my-cvs.diffs
>     mkdir empty-directory
>     diff -uN empty-directory new-directory > my-new-directory.diffs
>
> and then massage the output of the two .diffs files into a single file
> for submission to whoever needs the patch.

Thanks, i managed to get a working patch using this method with -X 
SDL12/.cvsignore

Cheers

JG