From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:18:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff: Match GNU diff behaviour when deciding hunk comment worthiness of lines
Message-ID: <7vejsxf88x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200610250133.k9P1XSVf006467@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>> This removes the '#' and '(' tests and adds a '$' test instead although I
>> have no idea what it is actually good for - but hey, if that's what GNU
>> diff does...
>
> $ starts a shell (or Perl) variable...
>
>> Pasky only went and did as Junio sayeth.
>
> Horst adds a guesse...

If I have to guess, I think that is from VMS.