RE: diff does not seem to do -y

[Hill, Ruth Ann]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: diff does not seem to do -y


I suppose I should have mentioned that the diff was against cvs-1.10.8/src/diff.c
Sorry for any confusion.

reattached for context.
Todd Denniston wrote:
>
> Larry Jones wrote:
> >
<SNIP>
> >
> > I'd start by comparing the options lists in src/diff.c, diff/diff.c, and
> > the rcsdiff man page.  And if you do decide to do it, please change the
> > diff_usage message (in src/diff.c) to document all of the options rather
> > than deferring to "rcsdiff-options".  (And, although I haven't looked, I
> > suspect a similar change ought to be made to the Cederqvist manual.)
> >
> > -Larry Jones
> >
> > Pitiful.  Just pitiful. -- Calvin
> Thanks for the pointers, and I love those C&H comments especially when they hit the context :).
>
> - I have not looked at changing Cederqvist, I hate doing documentation but love to have it. :)
> - I have updated the diff_usage message.
> note: I looked through and tried to remove any option that did not show up in the
> getopt_long call or in longopts[], but I could have missed one.
>
> - from what I remember I think people on the list have suggested changing the following line
>     "(The most popular is -c for context diffs but there are many more).\n"
> to indicate that to generate patches the -u option was there i.e.
>     "(The most popular is -c for context diffs and -u for patches).\n"
> but as I could not find you or Greg indicating as such I did not change it.
>
> -I have done some local testing of various  options and could not find that I had broken anything so this
> should be good.(crosses fingers and grabs the asbestos)
>

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