[cvsnt] cvs diff -N error

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 01:31:52 BST 2006


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Lalalalala client version? server version?


On 8/31/06, Bryce Schober <bryce.schober at dynonavionics.com> wrote:
> Doing cvs diff -N when I've added but not committed a file gives:
>
> C:\cvs\Project>cvs diff -uN mydir
> cvs server: Diffing mydir
> Index: mydir/newfile.txt
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: mydir/newfile.txt
> diff -N mydir/newfile.txt
> cvs [server aborted]: Cannot use reserved filename 'nul' on NT based
> machines
>
> I'm trying to generate a patch that includes the added file. Why doesn't
> this work?
>
> --
> Bryce Schober


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