Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:01:58 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, fyre@orbital.wiretapped.net, tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff problem Message-ID: <20020210040158.A26957@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <p05101421b88b76a6aa12@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:46:00PM -0500 References: <200202091752.g19HqFP11551@green.bikeshed.org> <p05101421b88b76a6aa12@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:46:00PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I think that the [GNUish] behavior is the most useful and thus the most > desirable one, from a purely practical point of view. The point of > 'diff' is to tell the person the difference between two files, it is > not there to slap the wrists of someone for using the "wrong tool" > to work on some file. When it comes to following standards, freebsd > can't claim to be following anyone that I can see. FreeBSD is following a pedantic reading of SUS. It is also useful to refer to `patch` when we talk about `diff`, since the former is defined (in SUS) in terms of the latter. And you also must consider how these tools interact with the revision management systems that the project uses. Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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