Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:55:44 +0200 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r360125 - in head/usr.bin/diff: . tests Message-ID: <wo5z-7orz-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20200428144255.1b75d9b5@ernst.home> (Gary Jennejohn's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:42:55 %2B0200") References: <202004201614.03KGEitC073880@repo.freebsd.org> <blnb-969s-wny@FreeBSD.org> <CACNAnaEZ4=G0SqHius9XfEpcQb4i3kgChmX3foUhsoP0noFnfw@mail.gmail.com> <20200428144255.1b75d9b5@ernst.home>
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Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:25:18 -0500 > Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > My /usr/bin/diff was built and installed on April 26, after this > commit, and I don't see the error either. Thanks for confirming. Looks like my "diff" was aliased to "diff -up". Indeed, -u and -U are no longer compatible unlike GNU diff.
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