From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: gratuitous changes
Date: 10 Feb 2003 10:47:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buovfzslxdi.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87el6kyyru.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it>
Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> writes:
> And I always call diff with the -b option.
>
> The latter should avoid all problems you mention when merging
> differences.
Um, no. `diff -b' is only appropriate when generating patches for
humans to look at*, not for merging (and things like CVS don't allow such
behavior anyway).
* and even then, it's not always appropriate -- sometimes you _want_ to
see indentation changes or whatever
-Miles
--
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-10 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-31 21:48 gratuitous changes Stefan Monnier
2003-01-31 22:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-01-31 22:51 ` John Wiegley
2003-01-31 23:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-01 0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-01 6:51 ` Robert Anderson
2003-02-03 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-03 16:20 ` Robert Anderson
2003-02-01 9:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-01 2:11 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-01 18:44 ` Bill Wohler
2003-02-01 22:11 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-01 23:28 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-02-02 5:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-02 6:14 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-06 16:34 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-02-06 17:22 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-10 0:29 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-02-03 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-02 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-02 12:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-02 13:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-03 13:01 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-03 14:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-03 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-03 15:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-04 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-04 16:09 ` Robert Anderson
2003-02-04 16:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-04 17:14 ` Robert Anderson
2003-02-04 17:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-04 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-04 20:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-04 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-04 20:44 ` Nick Roberts
2003-02-04 22:59 ` Edward O'Connor
2003-02-04 23:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-05 0:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-05 0:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-05 0:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-05 4:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-05 4:51 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-06 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-06 4:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-07 9:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-04 23:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-05 0:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-05 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-06 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-06 2:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-04 23:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-05 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-05 8:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-05 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-14 22:56 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-02-05 0:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-07 14:02 ` Francesco Potorti`
2003-02-10 1:47 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-02-10 10:09 ` Francesco Potorti`
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