[darcs-users] Re: yet another feature request for darcs diff

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:48:43AM +0300, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2003 22:30, David Roundy wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:54:45PM +0300, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> 
> > > Also, adding -N to the default diff flags seems like a good idea.
> >
> > Hmmm.  It does sound like a good idea, but would there be any easy way to
> > turn it off? Or perhaps noone really would be interested in turning it off?
> 
> Well, without -N, gnu diff behaves according to SuS, which dictates that
> when a file appears only in the new tree, diff shall only report its
> existance. I can't think of any reason why someone would want that
> behavior (throwing away data), but that could just be my limited
> imagination...

Ah, I know why you'd want to not use -N.  That would be to avoid seeing
automatically generated files.  But you wouldn't ever want that when doing
a darcs diff (since that only looks at files that are in the repo).  So
I'll add the -N.
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David Roundy
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