Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new `tla changes --diffs' behavior

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Charles Duffy <address@hidden>

    > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:05, Miles Bader wrote:
    > > If the purpose of the output is interactive examination (which is the 
case
    > > the great majority of the time in my experience), seeing new file 
contents
    > > dumped is usually just (voluminous) noise -- at least for me, it's 
almost
    > > always enough to see the name of the new file.

    > At the risk of worstening the s/n ratio, let me throw my hat in with
    > Miles on this one. (No position on the one-flag-or-two bit, though)

>From the gatekeeper perspective, the opposite is true.   At least the
way I'm currently working.

A merge goes something like this:

    1) do the merge into my project tree

    2) what-changed --diffs > +to-review

and then I review the merge, using "+to-review" to guide the process.

In that procedure, at least, I find the new-files output very useful.
(I don't, however, have any strong feelings about the default.  I
wouldn't mind having to type an extra option name.)

-t