On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:48:42PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a script for making a patch with all the right files excluded
> > by the way? "cvs diff" produces a huge amount of unrelated output
> > because of files that are both in the repository and touched by
> > "configure", and it doesn't list new files. And "diff" doesn't seem to
> > have an --include option to match its --exclude...
> 
> diff -N includes new files, and cvs diff takes arguments to pass to diff,
> as well as a list of filenames to limit its diff to.  With the help of 
> cvsutils,
> even read-only access can fake adding files to CVS.  My typical usage is:
> 
> $ cat ~/.cvsrc
> cvs -qz4
> update -Pd
> diff -uN
> $ cvsdo add src/randseed.[hc]
> ...
> $ cvs diff src/sort.c src/checksum.h src/randseed.[hc]
> ...

Thanks. I guess I need cvsutils then.

Frederik


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