Adding *new* files to the CVS; How?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> 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

Thanks.

I also found I could place a faux entry in Entries. For example,

	/some_file.m/0/Initial some_file.m//

I don't know what will happen when the files eventually make it into  
the cvs though.

Ben