Re: [Quilt-dev] QUILT_NO_DIFF_TIMESTAMPS vs. QUILT_DIFF_NO_TIMESTAMPS

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Hello,

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 22:09, Joe Green wrote:
> In the current source tree, I found that some places use
> QUILT_NO_DIFF_TIMESTAMPS and some use QUILT_DIFF_NO_TIMESTAMPS.  I don't
> know which is preferred, but QUILT_DIFF_NO_TIMESTAMPS was more common,
> so I changed them all to that (see attached patch).
>
> I also found that with the version of diff I have, the use of --label
> also disables timestamps.  --label appears to be used by default now, so
> timestamps are effectively always disabled.  I don't know if this
> behavior is specific to the version of diff I have or not (diffutils
> 2.8.1).

Thanks for reporting this. I have timestamps off in my .quiltrc, and the test 
suite does the same for apparent reasons. The timestamp apparently is seen as 
part of the label. Likely returning to the previous approach makes the most 
sense.

Cheers,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG