Implementing diff, was Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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- Sep 25, 2005, 15:47 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > > > The GNU diff sources are hard enough to read that I don't think we want to > > try to merge the unified diff generation from there. > > I was talking with GNU diff maintainer and his impression was > that CVS folks may have done enough libification -- I'll find > time to look at CVS code and see how much damage we are talking > about.
I am not sure if it would be wise to completely do away with the current method: Often, I call git-diff with my own wdiff-helper. Also, options like "-b" to diff are very useful, and would have to be implemented, too.
Ciao, Dscho