From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 29 11:51: 7 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 4C9EE15122 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:51:05 -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 UAA16281 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:51:03 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA80082 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:50:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0989115605; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id TAA01157; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:50:40 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:49:44 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19991229112002.P2130@dragon.nuxi.com> References: ; from rb@gid.co.uk on Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 06:17:00PM +0000 <19991228133654.A6358@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:49:41 +0000 To: obrien@freebsd.org From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format Cc: arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:20 am -0800 29/12/99, David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 06:17:00PM +0000, Bob Bishop wrote: >> Don't Do That - the cure would be far worse than the disease. > >Why? Can you substantiate? Well just for a start it will break /etc/security (fairly trivially, I'll grant). How many other scripts in the world will it break? What about cvs? (Just guessing). Plus as others have pointed out nobody else's diff does this. How about adding "DIFF_OPTIONS=-u" to standard profiles instead? -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message