Re: new script

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov  3, 2002, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:

> Today I wrote the appended script.  It is like cvsdiff but it makes
> the diff from the top-most directory in the project.

Perhaps we could just add a command-line option to cvsdiff that would
cause it to behave as you propose?  Or even make it the default
behavior (even though I don't quite like the change in behavior, it's
not like it would affect myself, since I always extract diffs from the
top of the tree anyway).

Also, we could add a command-line option that would just prefix all
pathnames in ^Index: lines with the given argument (a different
argument could extract the prefix from the cwd, as your script does).
fixpatch would take care of propagating the changes in Index: to the
actual pathnames in the diffs.

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