Re: cvs does not support adding files locally (to allow a diff et c

[Derek Robert Price]

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Jim.Hyslop wrote:

>2) cvs does *not* use the -N option.
>
>Since cvs is not diff, and cvs does not use the -N option, why
document it?
>By documenting the option, users are misled into believing that the
option
>actually does something useful.


That's not true.  The difference is that if you have a file that
exists on one end of your diff and not the other, e.g. `cvs diff
- -rBRANCH -rHEAD' where a file exists on HEAD and not BRANCH or visa
versa, CVS will output a diff for the file with -N specified but not
without it.

If you `cvs add' the file in question (you don't even need to commit
it), then CVS will add it to a local diff with -N, e.g.`cvs diff -uN
- -rBASE'.

Cheers,

Derek

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