Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach 'diff' about 'nodiff' attribute.

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 13, 2007, 14:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704131525260.12853@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704131007140.28181@xanadu.home>

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
>
>> If I've understood the attributes system correctly, it's worth bearing
>> in mind that "!diff" is not the same as "nodiff".  The not in "!diff"
>> means "supress the attribute diff", not as you would traditionally
>> imagine "not-diff".  In this case it doesn't matter because there are
>> only two possibilities for the diff engine - show the diff or don't.
>> However, more attributes might get added that aren't so simple.
>>
>> Junio - This makes me think that perhaps "!" is not the right symbol for
>> this - that's going to get read by programmers everywhere as NOT,
>> rather than suppress.  Perhaps it doesn't matter, I might be
>> over-thinking this.
>
> Maybe "-" then?  That better convey the notion of suppression while "!"
> is more about negation.

"-flag" will certainly be a more familiar way to say "disable flag" to gentoo users ... ;)

-- 
Julian

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