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

mbk@boredom.org wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:00:42PM -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote:
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>>issues@subversion.tigris.org wrote:
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>>>+It doesn't appear that the -w options is passed to diff as the
>>>+ documentation suggests.
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>>ok, this is like the 5th time someone has reported this "bug".
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>>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.
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>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. :-)
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Exactly. Except -u, which it does support by default. :-)

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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