[darcs-users] When and how is darcs using diff? (was: Line endings opinion poll)

Quag quaggy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 09:13:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:23:06 -0400, Michael Conrad
<conradme at email.uc.edu> wrote:

[big-snip]

> And now, "diff -r --exclude=_darcs . _darcs/current" shows nothing, but
> "darcs whatsnew" shows the change as usual.  So isn't darcs using diff to
> detect changes?

Bingo.

I think diff is only used for the output of the "darcs diff" command.
All other diffs are performed with darcs own diffing implementation
and diff file format.

Jonathan.




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