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problem with diff -N


From: sam th
Subject: problem with diff -N
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:40:51 -0500 (CDT)

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As the nightly build manager for AbiWord, I recieved a request for diff's
between the latest released source and the current cvs source.  CVS makes
this easy to generate, so I added it.  Then it turned out that this didn't
include the newly added files, so I added the -N command (which I have
always used for GNU diff).

That's when it didn't work.  I turns out that the -N command does generate
diffs for the new files, but it doesn't do them in the nice way that GNU
diff does.  Instead, it labels the old file as /dev/null and the new file
as a randomly named denizen of /tmp.  Needless to say, this doesn't make
patch too happy (even it isn't that smart).  

My question is, is there any way around this? Can I generate the diffs
that I have been asked for, with reasonable file names?  This works just
fine diffing the checked-out copy and a new copy, with GNU diff.  Is there
any way to accomplish this with CVS diff?

Thanks

           
        sam th               
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        http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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