[m-dev.] for review: new method of handling failures, part 7 of 6 :-(

[Fergus Henderson]

> > At any rate, it's actually better to add "-N" to your .cvsrc diff
> > command (e.g. have the line "diff -u -N"), because -N generates patches
> > for non-existant files (which I didn't know about when I wrote
> > makediff).

Beware however, that `-N' also causes (at least some versions of) cvs
to get a segmentation fault if any files have been removed with
`cvs remove'.

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