Re: Problem with format of svn diff output

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Mark Phippard wrote:
> The problem is that their diff file parser is looking for a date/time
> value on the lines of the patch where it lists the filename.

That's just wrong. The "+++" and "---" lines can contain arbitrary
strings, and are not even guaranteed to be file names (see the "--label"
option in gnu diff), but by convention the first word after the +++
or --- will be a file name. If the diff parser knows something about
the diff generator (e.g., if it knows that it comes from "svn diff")
then it can make more assumptions (e.g. it could expect to see revision
numbers).

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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Received on Wed May 24 16:06:40 2006