From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: diff-apply-hunk broken Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:41:09 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7wfzbnb71m.fsf@sic.twinsun.com> References: <1080547857.5425.676.camel@localhost> <1080658566.29736.101.camel@localhost> <20040331230818.GD6299@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080863024 10544 80.91.224.253 (1 Apr 2004 23:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 01:43:34 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 1B9BqQ-0004oI-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:43:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9BqM-0006tC-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:43:34 +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 1B9Bq4-0003x7-Q8 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B9Bpw-0003tM-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B9BpK-0003YF-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [198.147.65.9] (helo=alcor.twinsun.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B9Bo8-0001lH-Vr; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from green.twinsun.com ([192.54.239.71]) by alcor.twinsun.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i31NfACj015876; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:41:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from shade.twinsun.com (shade.twinsun.com [192.54.239.27]) by green.twinsun.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with SMTP id i31NfAj00701; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:41:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from sic.twinsun.com ([192.54.239.17]) by shade.twinsun.com (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id M2004040115410914891 ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:41:09 -0800 Original-Received: (from eggert@localhost) by sic.twinsun.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i31NfAt15267; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:41:10 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "01 Apr 2004 08:12:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) 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:21178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21178 At 01 Apr 2004 08:12:16 +0200, Eli Zaretskii writes: > * The following diff options are still accepted, but are no longer > documented. They may be withdrawn in future releases. > [...] > -L (use --label instead) Yes; the basic motivation here is a plan to support the -H, -L, -P, and -R options that are used by many programs that traverse directory structures (e.g., "cp"). It won't be in the next official diffutils version, but perhaps the one after that.