From owner-freebsd-standards Sat Feb 9 20: 4:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.22.195.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F27537B404; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:04:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #2) id 16ZlBe-0007C8-00 (Debian); Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:01:58 +0000 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:01:58 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "M. Warner Losh" , 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> References: <200202091752.g19HqFP11551@green.bikeshed.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:46:00PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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