Re: [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181654410.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4767F935.8060207@obry.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Pascal Obry wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin a ?crit :
> > With the new option "--prefix=<prefix1>[:<prefix2>]" you can change 
> > the shown prefix, or suppress it (by specifying the empty string).
> 
> Why not ? But do you have a motivation for this change ? I mean why 
> would you want to use a completely different prefix ?

I vaguely remember that somebody once asked for something a la GNU patch's -B option.

Besides, why restrict ourselves? I mean, really, my patch only adds 6/4 added/removed lines relative to your patch (part of which stems from the fact that I did not forget the "diff --git" line). Why not take the added value virtually for free?

Ciao, Dscho