Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: baz diff: progress dots Vs list of modified files.

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 15:27:47 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> > --quiet does sound useless.  
> 
> Actually, the doc says:
> 
>   -q, --quiet            Suppress progress information
> 
> So, removing the diff from the output in "baz diff -q" sounds more
> like a bug than a feature. I guess no one is using it so it doesn't
> matter if we change that.

It actually used to produce the diffs until a few months ago.

I had a tool that relied on that (or rather on the fact that diff
returned output if and only if there were changes (whic was then mailed
implicitely by cron)). I was quite angry when that stopped working.

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