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Re: git diff: support "-U" and "--unified" options properly

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 13, 2006, 21:05 UTC
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On Sat, 13 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > [ Maybe this can still hit 1.3.3? ]
> 
> Ah, we did not pass the diffopt to the function builtin_diff() in
> 1.3.X series, so not really.

Ahh, ok. Never mind. It's not like people have been clamoring for it, it just seemed to be such a _silly_ thing.

Might as well just go into the curren development tree, and then we'll have it fixed eventually (1.4.0?)

		Linus
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