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Re: svn commit: r11218 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

From: Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org>
Date: 2004-10-12 00:35:09 CEST

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 06:54:52PM -0500, julianfoad@tigris.org wrote:
> Author: julianfoad
> Date: Sun Oct 3 18:54:44 2004
> New Revision: 11218
>
> Modified:
> trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c
> Log:
> Improve help for '-x': don't say it is for GNU diff, as it is for any diff;
> also state the default value, as it is not obvious.
>
> * subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c (svn_cl__options): Update help for '-x'.
>
>
> Modified: trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c
> Url: http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c?view=diff&rev=11218&p1=trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c&r1=11217&p2=trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c&r2=11218
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c (original)
> +++ trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c Sun Oct 3 18:54:44 2004
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
> N_("specify a username ARG")},
> {"password", svn_cl__auth_password_opt, 1,
> N_("specify a password ARG")},
> - {"extensions", 'x', 1, N_("pass ARG as bundled options to GNU diff")},
> + {"extensions", 'x', 1, N_("pass ARG as bundled options to diff (default: '-u')")},
> {"targets", svn_cl__targets_opt, 1,
> N_("pass contents of file ARG as additional args")},
> {"xml", svn_cl__xml_opt, 0, N_("output in XML")},

I disagree with this commit. Until we stop passing -u and -L desipite
this param the documentation is probably better iwth GNU diff. You can
write a wrapper script that emulates GNU diff and then calls whatever
you want.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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