summary external_diff should not assume diff is gnu diff
On 6 Jan 2009, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug; its reasonable to depend on certain > capabilities in external tools - bzr doesn't claim to need 'posix diff'.
Having this feature just break is buggy. Various fixes are possible eg:
* document that 'diff' must be GNU diff
* run gdiff or gnudiff or whatever it's called
* only use --binary on platforms where we reasonably expect that diff will support it
-- Martin
summary external_diff should not assume diff is gnu diff
On 6 Jan 2009, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug; its reasonable to depend on certain
> capabilities in external tools - bzr doesn't claim to need 'posix diff'.
Having this feature just break is buggy. Various fixes are possible eg:
* document that 'diff' must be GNU diff
* run gdiff or gnudiff or whatever it's called
* only use --binary on platforms where we reasonably expect that diff
will support it
--
Martin