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[Gnu-arch-users] new `tla changes --diffs' behavior
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] new `tla changes --diffs' behavior |
Date: |
29 Jan 2004 08:36:31 +0900 |
In Tom's latest version, `tla changes --diffs' outputs the entire
contents of new files as diffs.
While this is definitely a needed function, I don't think it should be
the default -- for making patches it's handy, but for interactively
seeing `hmm, what have I changed' it's very annoying (I can see that I
added a new file from the summary output, and the actual contents are
not usually an issue -- but I _do_ want to see diffs for _changed_
files). In my usage, the `hmmm' case is by far the most common.
This is the way `diff' works too: by default it doesn't show whole-file
changes, but you can do so using the following options:
-N, --new-file Treat absent files as empty.
-P, --unidirectional-new-file Treat absent first files as empty.
So how about just adding these options to `tla changes' too?
[I can do so if nobody else want to.]
[BTW, another issue is: currently it shows new-file diffs even for added
patch-logs; should it do this, or maybe should it need a special option?]
Thanks,
-Miles
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