Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new `tla changes --diffs' behavior

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:05:27PM -0500, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:44:45AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > If you want to sratch it, go ahead. But the default should be on IMO.
> > (Otherwise -N becomes an 'unbreak me please' option.)
> 
> If the purpose of the output is interactive examination (which is the case
> the great majority of the time in my experience), seeing new file contents
> dumped is usually just (voluminous) noise -- at least for me, it's almost
> always enough to see the name of the new file.
> 
> [and of course it's also `what diff does']

You may find diffstat and filterdiff useful here.

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