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Re: rdiff doesn't support -b
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Stephen Rasku |
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Re: rdiff doesn't support -b |
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:06:24 -0800 (PST) |
Larry Jones wrote:
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>Stephen Rasku writes:
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>> Doing rdiff doesn't support -b. I am using 1.11.1. Has this been
>> fixed in the development version?
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>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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