[PING] Request: please add to 0.8 release --no-prefix option to diff command

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Fri Apr 28 10:37:45 BST 2006


On 26 Apr 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:19:53 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >> New behaviour of diff command (with a/ - b/ prefixes) breaks
> >> compatibility of bzr with some tools. In particular with my favorite FTE
> >> editor that has built-in support of SVN that I extend to support bzr.
> >>
> >> Please inclide to 0.8 release --no-prefix options to bzr diff.
> >> I think I saw the patch in the mailing list.
> > 
> > In fact given how a/ and b/ look (ugly IMHO), I'd even prefer
> > --prefix=<old>,<new>, defaulting to both being empty...
> 
> I would second this preference. I would even write the patch if it was
> decided it would be included.

I'd prefer that too.  Any objections?

-- 
Martin




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