Re: Adding a file to CVS?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> OK probably am missing something very obvious here, but when I
> use the -N option, all it does is add the line:
>
> ? app/authors.h
>
> to the top of the patch file, which is obviously not what I
> want, since I need the content of the file included too!
>
> BTW, doing cvs add app/authors.h produces the following:
>
> cvs [server aborted]: "add" requires write access to the
> repository
>
> Shall I just send the extra file separately with the patch, as
> you suggested, Lars? It's probably easiest judging by the
> above.

Yes, please do so.  I think Cyrille is wrong here -- you can't add files to
read-only repositories, the best I know.

-Lars

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