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Re: rdiff doesn't support -b


From: Stephen Rasku
Subject: Re: rdiff doesn't support -b
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:06:24 -0800 (PST)

Larry Jones wrote:
>
>Stephen Rasku writes:
>> 
>> Doing rdiff doesn't support -b.  I am using 1.11.1.  Has this been 
>> fixed in the development version?
>
>What's to fix?  cvs patch (aka rdiff) is intended for making patches
>and thus supports only the very small subset of diff options that 
>make sense in that context.  -b isn't one of them.

I am currently using it to determine whether certain checkins have 
been made in the wrong branch.  Since it is also displaying white 
space changes the diff I have to examine is much bigger than it has to 
be.

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Stephen Rasku                   E-mail: stephen@tgivan.com
Senior Software Engineer        Web:    http://www.pop-star.net/
TGI Technologies




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