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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:25:18 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r360125 - in head/usr.bin/diff: . tests
Message-ID:  <CACNAnaEZ4=G0SqHius9XfEpcQb4i3kgChmX3foUhsoP0noFnfw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <blnb-969s-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202004201614.03KGEitC073880@repo.freebsd.org> <blnb-969s-wny@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:52 AM Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > Author: kevans
> > Date: Mon Apr 20 16:14:44 2020
> > New Revision: 360125
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/360125
> >
> > Log:
> >   diff(1): reject conflicting formatting options
> >
> >   This matches GNU diff(1) behavior and, more importantly, eliminates any
> >   source of confusion if multiple formatting options are specified.
> >
> >   Note that the committed diff differs slightly from the submitted: I've
> >   modified it so that we initialize diff_format to something that isn't an
> >   accepted format option so that we can also reject --normal -c and -c
> >   --normal, which would've otherwise been accepted because the default was
> >   --normal. After option parsing we default it to D_NORMAL if it's still
> >   unset.
> >
> >   PR:         243975
> >   Submitted by:       fehmi noyan isi
> >   MFC after:  1 week
>
> Appears to break ability to specify number of context lines e.g.,
>
> $ diff -U999 /usr/include/sha256.h /usr/include/sha512.h
> error: conflicting output format options.
> usage: diff [-aBbdilpTtw] [-c | -e | -f | -n | -q | -u] [--ignore-case]
> [...]

Hmm, bizarre. =-\ This example works on my machine, and I don't see
off-hand what would be preventing it for you:

root@viper:/usr/src/usr.bin/diff# diff -U999 /usr/include/sha256.h
/usr/include/sha512.h
--- /usr/include/sha256.h       2020-04-22 21:38:54.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/include/sha512.h       2020-04-22 21:38:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,99 +1,99 @@
 /*-
  * Copyright 2005 Colin Percival
  * All rights reserved.
  *
[... omitted ...]

root@viper:/usr/src/usr.bin/diff# strings /usr/bin/diff | grep 'conflicting'
error: conflicting output format options.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans



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