On Friday 05 March 2004 08:53, Julian Foad wrote:
[snip]
> > FWIW, diff -u doesn't produce diffs if a directory is missing.
>
> [...]
>
> > So, I'm not sure
> > what the right interaction is here. Can patch handle removing
> > directories?
>
> 'patch' can remove directories, but that's only partly relevant. We should
> certainly try to produce output that is, by default, as useful with "patch"
> as possible, which means we should produce diffs for deleted files. But in
> particular, we provide a "--no-diff-deleted" flag to suppress the output of
> diffs for deleted files, so, in the absence of this switch, we should
> produce such diffs.
Agreed.
> The problem is that our "diff" is just not self-consistent, and I think we
> can justly call that a bug and fix it (even in version 1.0.1 if we want to
> do it that soon).
I'm not going to be able to get to this before 1.0.1. I hope to have a little
time over the weekend to get some things done though, so maybe for 1.0.2.
Work has been getting the best of me lately, so I've had little time in the
evenings for the fun stuff like Subversion. :-) I'm hoping that situation
goes away soon.
-John
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Received on Thu Mar 11 02:08:57 2004