On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:49:15AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 05:59 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 02/10/2013 07:41 AM, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> >> Is this use case valid enough to accept
> >> the patch ?
> >
> > I'm sort of on the fence on this one.
> > Comments from others welcome.
>
On 02/12/13 12:22, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> What do you think ?
I think it's fine to put a change like that in.
The documentation needs to be improved, and if
you're doing the change it's probably complex enough
that we'll need to have papers signed -- is that something
you can do?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 02:07:54PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/12/13 12:22, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> > What do you think ?
>
> I think it's fine to put a change like that in.
Great! Do you prefer the short option to be "-k" or "-K" ?
Eric suggested "-k", similar to what bzip2 and friends us
Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> Great! Do you prefer the short option to be "-k" or "-K" ?
>
> Eric suggested "-k", similar to what bzip2 and friends use. I have
> used "-K" to avoid overlapping with pkzip (currently not being
> used). But I have no problem using "-k" or "-K".
I would vote with Eric and
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 05:51:49PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> > Great! Do you prefer the short option to be "-k" or "-K" ?
> >
> > Eric suggested "-k", similar to what bzip2 and friends use. I have
> > used "-K" to avoid overlapping with pkzip (currently not being
> > used)
By default it is disabled to keep everything working as before. And as a
short option "-k" is used to be consistent with xz and bzip2.
Also, this patch changes "--stdout" which "Write output on standard output; keep
original files unchanged" to imply "-k"
---
gzip.1 |9 ++---
gzip.c | 1
By default it is disabled to keep everything working as before. And as a
short option "-k" is used to be consistent with xz and bzip2.
Also, this patch changes "--stdout" which "Write output on standard output; keep
original files unchanged" to imply "-k"
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changes since v2: added doc of "--kee
