From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:47:17 GMT Subject: Implementing diff, was Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vzmq1twh5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds 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