Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:39:16 -0500 From: Bryce W Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com> To: freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME types, links, diff tools Message-ID: <3FF9CB74.5000707@obviously.com> In-Reply-To: <1073333659.9121.229.camel@bobcat.mine.nu> References: <3FB23C1F.6040502@obviously.com> <3FB28082.6070707@obviously.com><3FBCEA3F.4050106@obviously.com> <3FD3547A.5010400@obviously.com><3FDF6F74.4070307@obviously.com> <3FEB7626.2030606@obviously.com><3FEF5E93.8020600@obviously.com> <3FF8DD46.5090501@obviously.com> <1073333659.9121.229.camel@bobcat.mine.nu>
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My guess is that diffing archives is a relatively rare operation, and
not worth too much
work. My patch took a pragmatic approach:
Unpack the archive
Check if any constituent files have a special diff associated
with them
If no, then "diff -r".
Before this patch, archives were completely undiffable. So "diff -r" is
better than nothing.
I use archives as a method of grouping related files, since CVS can't do
this itself.
Perhaps more common than archives are compressed files. "file.doc.bz2"
probably
is best handled by unpacking it first, then applying the mime type
detection to the result.
-Bryce
Ville Skyttä wrote:
>Diffing archive contents adds another level of complexity, whether to
>use plain "diff -r" or dedicated tools for diffing each file in the
>arcive separately, and how to sanely combine the results of different
>diff tools if the latter way is chosen.
>
>Thoughts?
>
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