Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 07.09.2005, at 15:32, Gordon Bergling wrote: Has anyone a hint on how to handle this situation? you might want to look at development(7). Not sure if this is being used by many people though. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work

Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:56:54PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi Brooks, > > > Either pack the files up in a shar or tarball or use diff -N against > > /dev/null to create that part of the diff by hand. FWIW, CVS wouldn't > > do it for you even if you could add the files. > > It would. This

Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-08 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Gordon, > The problem I am faced with is that there are new directories with new > files (a lot) and these files are not included in the patch. I tried to > 'cvs add' the directories, but I am not allowed the create the > directories in /home/ncvs. Sure I just could fire up sudo to do the > work,

Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-08 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Brooks, > Either pack the files up in a shar or tarball or use diff -N against > /dev/null to create that part of the diff by hand. FWIW, CVS wouldn't > do it for you even if you could add the files. It would. This has been a problem for me either and I finally switched to have my own CVS re

Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:32:39PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote: > Hi, > > I currently working to get an old patch up to HEAD, but I have a problem > with generating a diff from my work. > > I usually checkout out src from a local cvs mirror of the FreeBSD > repository. I do this with > > cvs -R

how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-07 Thread Gordon Bergling
Hi, I currently working to get an old patch up to HEAD, but I have a problem with generating a diff from my work. I usually checkout out src from a local cvs mirror of the FreeBSD repository. I do this with cvs -Rd/home/ncvs checkout src Without the -R flag I must do the checkout as root to cre