Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:37:58 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format Message-ID: <54991.946489078@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:27:59 %2B0800." <19991229172759.1847E1CCF@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <19991229172759.1847E1CCF@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >> P2> 4.17.2 Description >> P2> >> P2> The diff utility shall compare the contents of file1 and file2 and write >> P2> to standard output a list of changes necessary to convert file1 into >> P2> file2. This list should be minimal. No output shall be produced if the >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> P2> files are identical. > >Typical POSIX - Ambiguous as usual. "should" != "must". One could argue >that context diffs would fit in there depending on who is doing the >conversion - the minimum required for most humans to do a "conversion" is >-c format, see the PR database for examples. Uhm, I think the point of the posix text is to find the minimal set of changes, not the actual number of ascii-characters in the output. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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