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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Passing additional options to `diff'
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Passing additional options to `diff' |
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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:29:59 +0200 |
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Hi,
"Matthieu MOY" <address@hidden> writes:
> Has been discussed here already.
Sorry. I guess it's
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-08/msg00224.html .
> A small problem is the syntax to pass
> several options. --diff-options "-a -b -c" is not really satisfying,
> because baz would have to do the tokenization which is usually the task of
> the shell. You can imagine --diff-options -a -b -c \; (like find -exec),
> or --diff-option -a --diff-option -b --diff-option -c.
Ok. Or à la CVS, where unrecognized options passed to `cvs diff' are
passed to `diff' (which turns out to be convenient from a user's
perspective).
Is someone already working on this (on baz I guess)?
Thanks,
Ludovic.