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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>]

Nick Jennings wrote:

> > 2)am I wrong or this diff doesn't use `-u' option? I'd really prefer 
> > `-uN' to use unified format and paste new lines into the siff in their 
> > entirety
> > How's this?
> > Thanks!
> >    
>
> Well. I just changed the diff command to be a bit different. but
> in short - the cvs diff options are not the same as the command line
> diff options, so it's not as easy to change. Let me know what
> you think of the new format though.
>
>  
cvs's diff supports both:
$ cvs --help diff
Usage: cvs diff [-lR] [-k kopt] [format_options]
...
format_options:
...
 -u  -U NUM  --unified[=NUM]  Output NUM (default 2) lines of unified 
context.
...
 -N  --new-file  Treat absent files as empty.
...
Thanks!