From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 28 17:30:43 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 A9F751500A for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:30:40 -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 CAA07531 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:30:39 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id CAA75493 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:30:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242B214F3C; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:30:31 -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 RAA06057; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:32:43 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:30:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Warner Losh Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format In-Reply-To: <199912290059.RAA65616@harmony.village.org> 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 The actual solution to the problem is to ignore mail (and broken diff output) that's stupid. On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19991228164840.A7516@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : 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''. > > Hmmm, maybe we need a DIFF_POSIX_ME_HARDER=y to restore the old > behavior after David makes this change :-) Actually, > DIFF_POSIXLY_CORRECT might be a better name. This wouild solve > David's problem with an escape hatch for those that need compatibility > between systems. > > However, having said that, I'm afraid that the cure may be worse than > the problem. > > Warner > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message