David Fetter wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > David Fetter wrote: > > >cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file > > >without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've > > >checked out as anonymous. > > > > > > > I usually saved an untouched version of the tree to compare against, > > so something like: > > > > $ cvs diff -Nacr pgsql.orig pgsql > > > > gives a complete patch including added/deleted files. It is a bit > > primitive, but is pretty easy to do!
Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to get unmanageable. I do use the cvsup mirror myself which makes things so much easier and faster. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
