[darcs-users] Re: yet another feature request for darcs diff

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Monday 09 June 2003 22:30, David Roundy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:54:45PM +0300, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:

> > Also, adding -N to the default diff flags seems like a good idea.
>
> Hmmm.  It does sound like a good idea, but would there be any easy way to
> turn it off? Or perhaps noone really would be interested in turning it off?

Well, without -N, gnu diff behaves according to SuS, which dictates that when 
a file appears only in the new tree, diff shall only report its existance. I 
can't think of any reason why someone would want that behavior (throwing away 
data), but that could just be my limited imagination...

Aggelos