[darcs-users] Re: diff without header

Soh Tk-r28629 tksoh at freescale.com
Tue May 24 01:33:39 UTC 2005



> On 2005-05-18, TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How can I generate diff output without the header text describing the
> changes
> > that were made?
> 
> There's not a built-in option for that.
> 
> I'm not sure if you've aware that the 'patch' program will just ignore
> this if you
> try to include it in a patch that is applied. So usually they are
> valuable to include.

I am aware of that. While the header can be helpful sometime, when I publish my patches to SF tracker, these headers become redundant and only add the size of the diff file.

Perhaps a -h option can be added to suppress the header?




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