Lobbying for -p1 diffs

[Michael Ellerman]

On 3/2/06, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > >> I don't care whether we use ., -, {}, whatever to denote it.
> > >
> > > Spot the arch user ;D
>
> The {} for surrounding ids comes more from their occurrence in Microsoft
> GUID forms, I think.  I just wanted some kind of quoting to set them off
> from surrounding text.  I don't think they're very good in filenames
> because of their meaning to the shell.

I was just teasing :)

> It would also be good if 'bzr diff' accepted a -p option and behaved
> accordingly.

Hmm, except diff(1) doesn't accept a -p option? (Well it does but it
means something else).  And what does -p3 do? Prefix a/a/a/filename ?
We could just have --no-prefix or something, but it seems like
overkill just to keep one user happy ;D

cheers
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