From: Julian Phillips Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:26:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach 'diff' about 'nodiff' attribute. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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 --- Lie, n.: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.