From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Implementing diff, was Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vzmq1twh5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 25 19:01:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJZsF-0004rc-0U for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:01:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751531AbVIYRBI (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:01:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751535AbVIYRBI (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:01:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26010 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751531AbVIYRBH (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:01:07 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j8PH104s010120 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:01:00 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j8PH0w06022247; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:00:59 -0700 To: Davide Libenzi In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.45__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.118 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > What you'd have to do, if you chose to use diffutils stuff, is to > transform the main() of diff in diff_main(), use setjmp/longjmp to capture > its exit()s, and make it use a proper allocator (if you want to avoid > leaks upon aborts). I'd love to use libxdiff instead since you say it can do it, but quite frankly, the man-page didn't much help me. Do you have an example of how to generate a uni-diff with it? Something that mortal men can read and say "oh"? Linus