On 3/30/10 4:36 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:04:39PM -0600, Tim Haley wrote:
>> It would be easy enough for me to print a 'time' column as the first
>> column, and the output could then be sent to 'sort -n'.  I'm not sure
>> how people feel about that.  Is that cheating?  :-)  The alternative
>> is to AVL sort by that time, which as you note will increase the
>> footprint, perhaps dramatically for a really big diff.
>
> I'd be happy with that.  Someone suggested a -o field1,field2,..,fieldN

That would be me.

> option, and that's starting to look desirable.  There's at least these
> fields that you could include in output:
>
>   - object number
>   - object type
>   - timestamp*
>   - generation number
>   - type of change (create*, unlink*, rename*, other*, other meta-data, data)
>   - old path*
>   - new path*
>   - link count*
>
> The starred ones are the ones included in your proposals so far.  I'd be
> happy with just those; the others would be icing :)

+1

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