Re: Adding *new* files to the CVS; How?

[Thomas Treichl]

Shai Ayal schrieb:
> On Jan 6, 2008 6:09 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> > For the majority who does not have write access to the CVS, what is
> > the proper way to submit new files?
> >
> > Are they to be submitted in a patch? ... if so, how is the patch
> > created?
> >
> > or should they be submitted in their entirety?
>
> I think submitting them in their entirety, with a Changelog entry should be OK
>
> Shai

Hi Ben,

you also can submit new files as a patch file. If you have two directories, eg. 
octave and octave.orig then a typical call to diff would be

  diff -urN octave.orig octave

'-r' is used for recursive and '-N' is used for new files.

  Thomas