From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 29 10:36:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B04014E87 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15705 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:36:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA79606 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:36:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6174B156FD for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:35:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08512; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:36:58 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:36:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bruce Evans , Bill Fumerola , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format In-Reply-To: <19991229172759.1847E1CCF@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Typical POSIX - Ambiguous as usual. You mean "oracular" don't you? :-) > 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. > > Anyway, as much as I'd love to change the default, I'm sure somebody > somewhere will have something broken and/or take offence. By all means change the default (in your environment). Under what theory of operation are you convinced that changing the default for everyone is such a wonderful thing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message