how to handling read only cvs trees

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:56:54PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Brooks,
> 
> > Either pack the files up in a shar or tarball or use diff -N against
> > /dev/null to create that part of the diff by hand.  FWIW, CVS wouldn't
> > do it for you even if you could add the files.
> 
> It would.  This has been a problem for me either and I finally switched
> to have my own CVS repository belonging to my user.  This is a great
> waste of disk space, but this is how CVS works.  I think however this
> could be corrected without much pain because as far as I can remember,
> an ``add'' command will just add a line to CVS/Entries without
> even touching the repository, until the change is commited.

You are correct.  CVS's unhelpful message by default:

cvs diff: foo is a new entry, no comparison available

mislead me to believe that -N wasn't supported.

-- Brooks

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