Re: CVS diff and unknown files.

[Sergei Organov]

Todd Denniston <address@hidden> writes:
> Sergei Organov wrote:
> > 
> > Paul Sander <address@hidden> writes:
> > > On Jan 24, 2005, at 6:20 AM, address@hidden wrote:
[...]
> > Is there any sound reason why 'cvs add' and 'cvs remove' commands
> > require *write* access to the repo?
> > 
> I believe what Paul means, is that no one has yet owned up to writing or
> submitted the patches to implement the changes.
> 
> Please see the linked thread to answer your question.
> Greg & I believe there is no need in the normal case for add to contact the
> repo, especially to write, unfortunately it is currently implemented to
> connect.
> Paul had a case for desiring in certain cases to contact the server on add.
> Both cases _are valid_, my desire would be for add to contact the server
> only when an extra flag is passed.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=add+hook+question+%28was&submit=Search%21&idxname=info-cvs&max=20&result=normal&sort=date%3Aearly
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00150.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00188.html
> the trick I showed you is the "fake" I was speaking of in:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00191.html
> 
> Please understand the linked thread before posting much on this, as the heat
> got kind of high the last time we discussed it.

Thanks a lot for the links, -- I'll study them. I have no intention
to raise the heat on this issue even higher indeed.

So, this particular issue aside for now and returning to the initial
problem, aren't there any proposals/suggested patches to add an option
to the 'cvs diff' to include "unknown" files into the output the same
way it now includes locally added but not committed files? Does such
extension somehow interferes with the cvs way of doing things?

-- 
Sergei.