usinig cvs diff to make a patch

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:17 PM -0500 2/3/09, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>I use a local cvs repo and I have modified a port and which to 
>submit an update for it how do I generate a patch file with cvs (cvs 
>diff seems to give a unusable format)?

try:   cvs diff -u

In my case, i have added the following line to my ~/.cvsrc file:

diff -uN

(-N means "treat absent files as empty")

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