Lobbying for -p1 diffs

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:43:51PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I expect the path in the filename to be the path to the file, not
> the path to the file except with a non-existent top-level label.

As well, it throws me because it makes me automatically think that the
--- and +++ files are _different_ files, since the paths are different
from the start.

Mind, I would never quibble about an option to produce -p1 format
diffs (silly and pointless as I might think it; the world is full of
situations that make me do things I consider silly and pointless ;).
I have troubles with it being enabled by default, and big troubles
with not being able to disable it.


I can just imagine the conversations showing people how to use bzr.

"OK, now you do a `bzr diff`, and it'll show you your changes in diff
format."

"Why is it saying a/foo.c?  I don't have an a/ directory.  Or a b/
directory, either.  Why's it add that extra gloop in there, instead of
just telling me what file changed?"



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