From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:00:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Implementing diff, was Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509250959540.3308@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509250854570.22725@localhost.localdomain>



On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> What you'd have to do, if you chose to use diffutils stuff, is to 
> transform the main() of diff in diff_main(), use setjmp/longjmp to capture 
> its exit()s, and make it use a proper allocator (if you want to avoid 
> leaks upon aborts).

I'd love to use libxdiff instead since you say it can do it, but quite
frankly, the man-page didn't much help me. Do you have an example of how
to generate a uni-diff with it? Something that mortal men can read and say 
"oh"?

		Linus