On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:03:17 +0100 <k...@shike2.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm thinking about removing support for all > > output formats except unified context from > > my diff(1) candidate. I want to hear your > > opinion. > > I don't like the idea at all. I use some times > the ed output for some scripts. SCCS, RCS and > CVS use it to, so I think it is a very bad idea > to remove it.
Does RCS use ed? GNU diff has -n(--rcs). Is there any point to supporting SCCS and RCS? I was thinking about ignoring SCCS support in patch(1) too. What would happen if `diff -e` output unified context? patch(1) will automatically determine the format, so unless those systems have there own implementation of patch or explicitly call patch(1) with -e there should be no problem, and if they do have their own patch-implementation they probably have their own diff-implementation too. > > Regards. > >
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