[darcs-users] diff preferences? whatsnew format?

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Monday 24 November 2003 13:28, David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:53:18AM +0200, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 November 2003 16:13, David Roundy wrote:
> > > I've implemented a -u option to whatsnew which gives it some context.
> > > I've left the default to be context-less, because that's the way I
> > > prefer it, but of course you can set your defaults using
> > > _darcs/prefs/defaults.
> >
> > Not that I mind much, but is the duplication of context lines (see
> > example below) intended? The extra verbosity gets kind of tiring for
> > large diffs. I assume it's like this only because it was less work (or
> > maybe you didn't notice), but if/when you're feeling bored could you make
> > darcs supress them?
>
> The duplication of context lines (and modified lines as below) is a result
> of darcs viewing each hunk as a separate patch and formatting them
> separately.  Outputting each hunk patch separately allows the -u output to
> be a valid darcs patch, so I have plans to add a -u option to push, for
> when you would like to send the patch in a format that is more
> human-readable.  On the other hand, since the context data isn't actually
> used by darcs, so it can be left out without causing trouble.  As you
> suggest, I may (if bored, which doesn't seem likely to happen soon) see if
> there is a nice way to suppress these lines.
>
> It would require significant code reorganization, as each hunk patch is
> separately output, but it might not be too hard to make the output of each
> patch depend on both the patch before and the patch after it... it would
> certainly be nicer.  Basically we'd need a version of showContextPatch like
> showContextPatchInContext which would accept an additional two arguments
> containing the patches before and after.

Well, since it's not trivial, please don't waste your time on this.

Aggelos