I just found another reason to be happy I switched from Subversion. Many years ago, I constructed this horrid alias to get whitespace-insensitive diffs out of svn:
alias sdw='svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff --extensions -buwB’ This was necessary because at the time, svn diff only had flags affecting the operation of the VCS-level parts of svn. There were none affecting the diff operation itself: it always gave the same output format. I now see that more recent versions of svn allow --extensions to affect the internal diff implementation, too, so that I could rewrite the alias as alias sdw='svn diff --extensions -buw’ Nevertheless, Fossil still has an advantage is that you don’t need --extensions or -b, or -u, so the corresponding Fossil command is quite a bit shorter and more POSIX-like. I give a hearty “Thank you!" to whoever wrote that! _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
