From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 29 19: 8:39 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 5FDBF14FE6 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:08:30 -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 EAA19727 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 04:08:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA82190 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 04:08:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589E814C9A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA14332; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA16192; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:06:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bob Bishop Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format Message-ID: <19991229190632.D16090@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: ; <19991228133654.A6358@dragon.nuxi.com> <19991229112002.P2130@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from rb@gid.co.uk on Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 07:49:41PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well just for a start it will break /etc/security (fairly trivially, I'll > grant). Ok, a 3-line edit and that is fixed. Whoppie. > How many other scripts in the world will it break? What about cvs? > (Just guessing). To quote wpaul: Don't guess, substantiate. CVS uses its own internal diff routines. Anyway, most people use ``cvs diff -(u|c)'' anyway. I would be saying them typing. > Plus as others have pointed out nobody else's diff does > this. So? We start the revolution. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message