Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> Long-term, we want both of those. When we have pluggable diff
> programs, users will always have the case where for *just this
> run* they want to use a different diff program than what's
> specified in the config files. It just so happens that we can
> also make use of that code path and command-line option today to
> switch between the internal and GNU diff implementations.
>
> So my vote goes to making the internal library the default,
> changeable only at run-time with some kind of --diff-program
> option.
Hey, yeah! I hadn't thought about it that way, but this makes a lot
of sense. +1.
> I'm not sure what the answer to this is, but the --diff-program
> option will need a way to get command-line arguments to the
> program. Whether it should be made of the form --diff-program
> '/usr/bin/diff -up' or --diff-program /usr/bin/diff -x -up i am
> not sure. I lean toward the former, but i'm sure some people
> will cry about spaces in their filenames.
Let's continue to reserve -x for now. For all we know, we could even
use it to pass options to the *internal* diff library.
-K
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Received on Mon Feb 10 19:33:19 2003