[RFC] generalized diff plugin - option name?

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Apr 27 14:26:54 BST 2006


Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On 4/27/06, Stephen Ward <sward.dev at verizon.net> wrote:

...

> 
> --using seems reasonable to me. The only other thing I can think it
> could mean in the context of diff would be the algorithm to use, eg.
> 
> diff --using patience-diff -r 95..98 FILE
> 
> But I don't think anyone's about to code that up, so I'd say go ahead.
> 
> cheers


Well, patience-diff has already been written, and is just sitting in one
of my trees. :)

It could just be one of the registered types, that just was treated
slightly differently than the other types. (Some types expect to spawn
an external program, some expect to call an internal function).

John
=:->

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