CVS diff generating unuseable patches ?

[richard offer]

A naive question...

I'm trying to generate a large patch that includes new files, so I do

cvs -q diff -c -N -r PRE_AUDIT


The patch when applied to the vanilla source is okay for all the existing
files.

But for the new files it starts creating files called /tmp/cvsxxxxx instead of
the files in the directory ?

ie looking at the diff.


Index: drivers/block/audit.c
===================================================================
RCS file: audit.c
diff -N audit.c
*** /dev/null   Tue Aug 29 14:22:17 2000
--- /tmp/cvsQt9R2X  Wed Oct 18 17:09:29 2000
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,574 ----
+ /*
+  * $Id: audit.c,v 1.14 2000/10/03 20:42:09 offer Exp $

And when using patch


patching file `drivers/block/Makefile'
patching file `/tmp/cvsQt9R2X'


This behaviour doesn't seen useful to me, why would it create a file in /tmp,
when Index: tells it which file to create ?

For your imformation I'm using cvs 1.10 and patch 2.5


Any clues ?


richard.


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