On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:03:17 +0100
<k0ga_AT_shike2.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm thinking about removing support for all
> > output formats except unified context from
> > my diff(1) candidate. I want to hear your
> > opinion.
>
> I don't like the idea at all. I use some times
> the ed output for some scripts. SCCS, RCS and
> CVS use it to, so I think it is a very bad idea
> to remove it.
Does RCS use ed? GNU diff has -n(--rcs).
Is there any point to supporting SCCS and RCS?
I was thinking about ignoring SCCS support in
patch(1) too.
What would happen if `diff -e` output unified
context? patch(1) will automatically determine
the format, so unless those systems have there
own implementation of patch or explicitly call
patch(1) with -e there should be no problem, and
if they do have their own patch-implementation
they probably have their own diff-implementation
too.
>
> Regards.
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 07 2016 - 21:14:01 CET