Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Any interest in adding Shorewall

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > > Never used cvs diff....
> >
> > You should check it out, it's a VERY useful command.
> >
> > You can just "cvs diff file" and it will 'diff' the file on your hard
> > disk against the latest CVS version of the file to see what you've
> > changed.
> >
> > You can also diff your local file against a different CVS version with
> > the "-r" parameter.  "cvs diff -r 1.21 file"
> >
> > You can even diff two different CVS versions by specifying "-r" twice.
> > "cvs diff -r 1.12 -r 1.13 file"
> 
> Any way of using it to diff for new files? 

I don't think so.

> I think I tried all options and all 
> it told me was which files had been added, but not what had been added in the 
> files (ie, the whole file).  Doing it on an already existing file and it 
> works great. I'm trying to create a patchfile for a new package.

I think you'll have to use the regular diff command with the -N option.

BTW, you really don't have to create a patch for _new_ files as far as
us developers are concerned.  You can just send us the file.

 - BS