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Re: Creating a file using patch after cvs diff
From: |
Pierre Asselin |
Subject: |
Re: Creating a file using patch after cvs diff |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:53:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (NetBSD/3.1_RC3 (i386)) |
Zeh Mau <address@hidden> wrote:
> cvs add new.c
> cvs delete old.c
> commit -m "Change" old.c new.c
> cvs diff -N -rFirst -Newest > mypatch.patch
Try "cvs patch" instead of "cvs diff". It has built-in
options to create a working patch (-N is only one of them).
> patch -E < mypatch.patch
> Unfortunately, new.c has not been created because of:
> Hmm... Looks like a normal diff to me...
> can't find file to patch at input line 5
I think that's because you left out the -c (or -u)
option to cvs diff. Does the patchfile say that
the original is /dev/null ?
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