I'm not sure if your question is about core or contrib. For contrib (where you have CVS write access) I use "cvs add " to add the directory. If you are doing this with core files (where you don't have CVS write access), someone else answered this question for me recently. The answer is, of course, in the d.o handbooks in the "Patches" section (but somewhat buried): http://drupal.org/patch/create -Peter On 6/6/07, Stefan Nagtegaal <development@robuustdesign.nl> wrote:

First of all, I'm not sure I wrote this message to the proper list. Perhaps it should be on the support list, but as there are *a lot* of really good developers on this list, I think my question is more in place here than there. If not, I apoligize for that..

the main reason for my question is that I'm trying to make a proper patch for the following issue: http://drupal.org/node/140932 - Improve image-api: Image toolkits should be implemented as modules

The problem is that the patch should add a directory 'gd', and place the new files (gd.info and gd.module) inside it. According to http://drupal.org/patch/create (Creating patches) it is possible to add new files by having the '-N' flag in your cvs diff command and adding the /newfile.inc/0/New file// lines in the 'CVS/Entries' file.

Is this possible with new to add directories? And how should I do that?

Thank you for your time and help!

Kind regards,

Stefan Nagtegaal