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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:06:32 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing diff's default output format
Message-ID:  <19991229190632.D16090@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <l03020918b49013348e36@[194.32.164.2]>; from rb@gid.co.uk on Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 07:49:41PM %2B0000
References:  <l03020916b490001e11bd@[194.32.164.2]>; <19991228133654.A6358@dragon.nuxi.com> <l03020916b490001e11bd@[194.32.164.2]> <19991229112002.P2130@dragon.nuxi.com> <l03020918b49013348e36@[194.32.164.2]>

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> 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)




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