Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:08:32 +0300 (IDT)
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> > Diff it against /dev/null locally on your machine.  Since empty files
> > are all alike, this is good enough ;-).
> 
> Yes, but diff has the -N option that does just that. But it's not
> working in cvs diff.

I don't see how -N would help you in this case, since the new file is not 
yet in the repository, so CVS knows nothing about it.

I think -N should work when you diff directories (if it doesn't, I think 
it's a bug).