Re: My bzr diff output for Emacs is now 6 MB

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:27:59 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> It was those lines that differed for every file:
> 
> ;; Copyright (C) 2004-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That's when the Copyright notices were updated for all the files,
to include 2011, because a new year has begun.  What was the problem
with these lines?

> I did not save this one, but I have an old output from bzr diff from
> 2010-12-29 which is 6 MB. The diff is done after the merge and against
> the checked out trunk.

So what is the problem here?  If every file has its first line or two
changed, the diff of 6MB is normal.

> Unfortunately the bzr diff output does not contain any details about
> what revisions was diffed. (Is not that a big omitting?)

"bzr diff" always diffs against the current version by default, which
you can see with "bzr revno".  If you give non-default -rREVNO
arguments to "bzr diff", then presumably you already know the
revisions yourself.