On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 00:39, Adrian Aichner wrote: [...] I'd be very happy to hear how that should be done. I've had no luck with only adding -N to "cvs diff" options, but have always had to "cvs add" the file first. Otherwise, I get: "cvs server: I know nothing about some_file". The problem, of course is when one doesn't have commit access, the "cvs add" can't be done. Another interesting point is that diffing after a "cvs add", but before committing, my cvs automagically does "diff -N" for these files, ignoring any other diff options from the command line or ~/.cvsrc... -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at xemacs.org