From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11067: 24.0.94.1; diff-buffer-with-file Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:34:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332538517 16236 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2012 21:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Arni Magnusson To: 11067@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 23 22:35:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC8f-0006Gf-CF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC8e-0001F9-NZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC8b-0001E8-Jd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC8Z-00043Y-RB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC8Z-00043M-Ne for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SBCcT-0005pm-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:06:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:06:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11067 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11067-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11067.133254033522394 (code B ref 11067); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:06:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11067) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Mar 2012 22:05:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35789 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SBCc2-0005p8-Oj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:36275) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SBCbU-0005oB-T1 for 11067@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SBC7Y-00005g-Ut; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:34:05 -0400 X-Spook: Perl-RSA USCODE cybercash Watergate Janet Reno CID COSCO X-Ran: schK!_$8HOAWJx*\A`@_{yIvUg#iJ (Arni Magnusson's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:54:16 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58041 Archived-At: Arni Magnusson wrote: > in Emacs 24.0.94.1 alpha it the *Diff* buffer contains > > winmerge "-L" "c:/gnu/emacs/BUGS" "-L" "#" > "c:/gnu/emacs/BUGS" "c:/Temp/buffer-content-2640boz" Semi-related: I was wondering why I could not find "-L" in diff's help output or man-page, then I found: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?35267 Currently CVS uses GNU diff's -L option. That option has been undocumented since diffutils 2.8 (released in March 2002) and the option is intended to be replaced sometime soon with a different meaning. Can you please fix CVS so that it uses "diff --label" instead of "diff -L"? That will make CVS immune to this planned change.