> 1) Extend diffutils to handle various cases like this and standartize > use of these enhanced diffutils. > 2) Implement support for multiple diffutils in tla, where the archive > would somehow state which ones it needs and which ones should be used > for different files in the archive.
Nb 2 is clearly the most flexible option. It could even be used internally to replace the .arch-ids subdirectory with a .arch-ids file with a specialized merge/diff algorithm (which would mirror the order-agnostic diff/merge currently used for directories). Stefan _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/