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Re: [Issue 1211] New - svn diff -x doesn't seem to do anything.

From: <mbk_at_boredom.org>
Date: 2003-03-28 01:04:59 CET

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:00:42PM -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> issues@subversion.tigris.org wrote:
>
> >+It doesn't appear that the -w options is passed to diff as the
> >+ documentation suggests.
> >
>
> ok, this is like the 5th time someone has reported this "bug".
>
> would anyone object to me adding code to check if -x is used with the
> built in diff lib so we can error out in that case? i mean we can't
> possibly do what the user is expecting since we don't handle diff
> options yet, and silently ignoring them seems to be causing a lot of
> confusion.
>

I think the internal diff lib should have an option parser, and
should reject options that it doesn't support. At first, it can
reject all of them. :-)

--ben

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