Re: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Jim,

* On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:03:27AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> > $ cvs rdiff -uN -r Release_0_1 -r Releae_0_1_Bugfixes > 
> 
> What does the -N flag do? It isn't documented.

forget it, it is non-existant with rdiff, while it exists with diff. So
it is my fault.

with "diff" (not cvs diff), the option -N tells diff to treat files
which are non-existant in one directory as if it was there, but empty.
This way, the diff is complete. If you do not specify -N, diff only
tells you that some file was missing, but you don't see the contents of
it.

As I said, this option is missing with "cvs rdiff", while it exists with
"cvs diff" (cvs 1.11.16). Is this difference "by intention", or is it
accidentially? I would find it very usefull for rdiff.


The following simple skript demonstrates this:

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#! /bin/bash

export CVSROOT=~/test.cvsroot/

cvs init
mkdir ~/test.cvsroot/test/

cvs co test
cd test

cat > f1 <<%
This is file 1
%

cvs add f1
cvs commit -m "First version"
cvs tag v1

cat > f2 <<%
This is file 2
%

cvs add f2
cvs commit -m "2nd version"
cvs tag v2

rm f1
cvs rm f1
cvs commit -m "3rd version"
cvs tag v3

cvs diff -u -r v2 > ../v2_v3.diff
cvs diff -u -r v1 > ../v1_v3.diff

cvs diff -uN -r v2 > ../v2_v3_N.diff
cvs diff -uN -r v1 > ../v1_v3_N.diff
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Regards,
   Spiro.

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