From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: diff-apply-hunk broken Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:08:18 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040331230818.GD6299@fencepost> References: <1080547857.5425.676.camel@localhost> <1080658566.29736.101.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080774926 29716 80.91.224.253 (31 Mar 2004 23:15:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andre Spiegel , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 01:15:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8ovX-0004iR-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 01:15:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8ovX-0002Ke-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 01:15:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8ou9-00080M-V5 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8otg-0007yH-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8opW-0006mK-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8opF-0006eY-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:08:49 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B8ook-0007IP-Vw; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:08:18 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21140 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21140 On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:28:22PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The manpage definitely mentions -L as does `diff --help'. > > > What version are you referring to? In GNU diffutils 2.8.1-6 (Debian > > unstable), diff -L is neither mentioned in the manpage, the info manual, > > nor diff --help. > > ~-0% diff --version > diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1 FWIW, fencepost has diff 2.7, which supports -L, and --help mentions it. [This is a great option, BTW -- I used to do the same thing with an awk-script that parsed the diff-output, and munged the names, but man what a pain, -L is soooo much better.] -Miles -- We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo