From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 28 13:42:45 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 9282614D6A for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:42:42 -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 WAA05806 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:42:40 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA74032 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:42:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759E7154E8; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05454; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:44:04 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:41:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format In-Reply-To: <19991228133654.A6358@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, please don't. This is something which is so basic to *all* unix systems that it would be very unwise to change the default expected behaviour. 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. On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > I'm tired of getting useless diffs from clueless people in traditional > format. I'd like to change the default format to -u (or even -c if that > is more popular). Opinions? > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message