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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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