From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 28 16:48:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7B814CD2 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07008 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 01:48:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA75033 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 01:48:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAB4154E6 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:48:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08945; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:48:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA07541; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:48:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format Message-ID: <19991228164840.A7516@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <19991228133654.A6358@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:41:48PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:41:48PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > If you want a default format, either use aliases, an environment variable, > or even a different argv[0] to get the -u or -c behaviour. BUT, this does not fix the problem -- lusers constantly sending me traditional diffs that usually don't apply for various reasons. On my machines I already have ``DIFF_OPTIONS=-u''. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message