Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 95647 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 16:01:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 16:01:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 18731 invoked by uid 97); 3 Dec 2002 16:01:51 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 18655 invoked by uid 97); 3 Dec 2002 16:01:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 18580 invoked by uid 98); 3 Dec 2002 16:01:49 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) X-Authentication-Warning: bodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@apache.org using -f To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: contributing to project References: From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 03 Dec 2002 17:00:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Joshua Allen wrote: > Although I won't need to, cvs won't let you add a new file to the > project--even if it's just to create a diff file. You can trick CVS into thinking you've added a file simply by adding a line like /foo/0/dummy timestamp// to CVS/Entries manually. Here CVS would assume you had added a file foo and will happily do a cvs diff -u for you. ISTR there was a suit of scripts that helped to deal with issues like that (i.e. a cvsadd script that did just what I've described above). I've lost the link, sorry. > So contributions from non-committers seem to be limited to modifying > existing files only. You can always send in a file (or an archive) in addition to your patch and tell us where to add the file(s). Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: