>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skytt <Ville>
writes:
> Ah, so does the -N option not hurt when used on files which are
> not new?
Ville> Not that I know of, I have "diff -Nau" in my ~/.cvsrc and
Ville> have experienced no problems with it.
That's right. All it does is substitute /dev/null for any
non-existent file.
Ville> Anyway, I'm still looking for how to do this without "cvs
Ville> add"ing. But that's kinda off topic here.
Why? If CVS doesn't know about it, you should not be able to
manipulate it with CVS. just use "diff ... /dev/null file-to-diff",
no?
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