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Re: Changing your tools (was Re: How well does CVS handle other types o
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Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: Changing your tools (was Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?) |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:38:47 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Thursday, July 19, 2001 at 09:50:09 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Changing your tools (was Re: How well does CVS handle other types
> of data?)
>
> Greg Woods wrote:
>
> >(I could make my now enhanced fgrep available with it's new '-S' option
> >though, and that would considerably shorten the above RE, and make the
> >internal search algorithm much more identical to the one used by
> >CVS. :-)
>
> Please, don't! People rely on fgrep to display a diagostic and exit
> with a status code >1 in the presence of -S on the command line.
> Publishing this change will totally break the world. It's not designed
> to operate way. I don't like it, and anyone who's stupid enough to need
> such a feature should use something else.
ROTFL!!!!!! ;-)
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