Adding *new* files to the CVS; How?

[Thomas Treichl]

Shai Ayal schrieb:
> On Jan 6, 2008 6:09 AM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>> For the majority who does not have write access to the CVS, what is
>> the proper way to submit new files?
>>
>> Are they to be submitted in a patch? ... if so, how is the patch
>> created?
>>
>> or should they be submitted in their entirety?
> 
> I think submitting them in their entirety, with a Changelog entry should be OK
> 
> Shai

Hi Ben,

you also can submit new files as a patch file. If you have two directories, eg. 
octave and octave.orig then a typical call to diff would be

   diff -urN octave.orig octave

'-r' is used for recursive and '-N' is used for new files.

   Thomas