FEATURE REQ: Make alias for --diff-options

[Jari Aalto]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

| Jari Aalto wrote:
| 
| > Would it be possible to provide shorted form for command line
| > use, something like:
| > 
| >    $ bzr diff -o -bwu -C 5
| >               |
| >               extra options to diff follow
| 
| Another option would be to let you configure your diff options somewhere
| else, like an environment variable or global configuration.
| 
| BTW, don't the u and C 5 options conflict?  I get "conflicting output
| style options"

In fact my example was wrong, it should have been (try bzr-dev branch):

   $ bzr diff -r 1100..1101 --diff-options diff -bwcC 5

However, this seems to cause problems:

  bzr: ERROR: u'/usr/src/bzr-source/branch/bzr-dev.my/5' does not exist
  at /usr/src/build/build/bazaar-ng/bzr-0.0.7/.inst/usr/share/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/branch.py line 120, in find_branch_root()
  see ~/.bzr.log for debug information

Btw, that u'/usr/src/... path is funny under Cygwin.

Here is another example:

   $ bzr diff -r 1100..1101 --diff-options diff -bwc -C 5

  bzr: ERROR: unknown short option '-C'
  at /usr/src/build/build/bazaar-ng/bzr-0.0.7/.inst/usr/share/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py line 463, in parse_args()
  see ~/.bzr.log for debug information
   

The parsing routine expects only one set of

    -oPTiOnS

but it should be possible to group them any way needed for the
external process:

    -o -P -TiO -n -S

Looks like bug staring at there :-)