Re: [PATCH] diff: fix behaviour of the "-s" option
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- May 5, 2023, 16:31 UTC
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Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
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>> * Whenever we set DIFF_FORMAT_FOO becasuse we saw the "--foo" >> option (e.g. DIFF_FORMAT_RAW is set when the "--raw" option is >> given), we make sure we drop DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT. We forgot to >> do so in some of the options and caused (2) above. >> >> * When processing "-s" option, we should not just set >> DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT bit, but clear other DIFF_FORMAT_* bits. >> We didn't do so and retained format bits set by options >> previously seen, causing (1) above. > > Sounds good to me. Doesn't this makes DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT obsolete as > well, I wonder, as absence of any output bits effectively means "no > output"?
Not quite. The latter is not "set 0 to output_format word", but "set 0 to output_format word and then flip only NO_OUTPUT bit on". I've written a bit more on it in a follow-up message to the patch.
Thanks.