Re: rdiff
Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
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Paul Edwards wrote: >"Larry Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > >>>Is it possible to get rdiff to do a simple diff, the same way >>>that "diff" does by default, rather than a context diff? I've >>>never found a way to do that. >>> >>> >>No, it's not. Rdiff is intended for making patches and is thus much >>less flexible than regular diff. >> >> > >Ok. But the other thing rdiff is used for is for people who >want to see the differences between two releases, without >actually having to check out the entire release into a working >directory (which they may not even have space for). > >The other advantage rdiff has is that if two releases have >different version numbers, but that is just a historical anomaly, >there are no actual code changes, rdiff will not report any >difference, while diff will show an "empty" change (which >is usually of no interest to anyone). > >Anyway, thanks for letting me know. > >BFN. Paul. > > Parallel operation would suggest that rdiff would behave mostly like diff in the same way that rlog, rannotate, and rtag behave mostly like their local counterparts. Since I fixed `cvs diff' to prepare proper patches some time ago, provided `-uN' is supplied, perhaps rdiff should accept all the diff options but default to `-uN' now? I've never verified the empty change behavior, but perhaps diff shouldn't be displaying empty changes either. Regardless, I don't have time to do all this myself. :) Patches gratefully accepted! Test cases and new issues welcome as well. Derek -- *8^) Email: [email protected] Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! -- Life in a vacuum sucks.