Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Passing arbitrary options to `diff'

[Andy Tai]

Thanks for these patches!  I will incorporate them.  My personal opinion is to 
still keep the -B,
-b and -w as direct opinions to tla diff since these seem to be more common 
cases of custom
options people want from diff... but arbitrary diff options will be definitely 
in.

Let me know of any strong opinions on this matter :-)

Andy
--- Ludovic Court�s <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Haakon Riiser <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Great, but could you also support the -B/--ignore-blank-lines
> > option?  (I tend to use -Bb when reviewing diffs, since that
> > combination excludes changes that normally are just cosmetics.)
> > Here's an untested patch:
> 
> I slightly modified this patch in my branch[*] so that one can use both
> options at the same time (you need `patch-2' and `patch-3' for this).
> 
> However, I thought that a generic option that would allow to pass
> arbitrary options to `diff' would be more flexible (`patch-4' implements
> this and removes `-b' and `-w').  Basically, this new option, namely
> `--diff-options' or `-D', can be used as follows:
>