Using CVS diff to find out what has changed, including new files

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Rolf Grossmann <grossman at progtech.net> writes:
> I'm using cvsup for a while now to get a copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository
> and I have a (slightly modified) version of -STABLE checked out from there.
> Now there are certain areas where I'd like to see what changed before
> doing a "cvs update". Currently I'm using "cvs diff -u -N -r BASE -r RELENG_4"
> to do that. However this has one drawback that I'm hoping you'll be
> able to help me with: If files have been removed from the distribution,
> these files continue to show up as getting readded (even though they
> won't when doing an update). To see the problem, you can go to
> /usr/src/sbin/md5 and run the above cvs diff command.

That's normal behaviour with CVS when using branches.  The only
workaround I know of is to specify the files explicitly.  With zsh,
you can do 'cvs diff -Nu -rBASE -rRELENG_4 **/*~*CVS*(.)'

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