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Re: diffing directories with merged-as-deleted files?

From: amylaar at spamcop dot net
To: Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
Cc: Joern RENNECKE <joern dot rennecke at st dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:32:27 -0500
Subject: Re: diffing directories with merged-as-deleted files?

>> cvs would never do such nonsense.


>Absolutely! It would just print all the directory names in the middle of the
>diffs. I call that nonsense as well.

But the directory names go to stderr.  When you redirect stdout to a file,
a diff without the directory names is written to that file, while you
get an ongoing progress report.

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