[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Passing additional options to `diff'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Matthieu MOY" <address@hidden> writes:

> Has been discussed here already.

Sorry.  I guess it's
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-08/msg00224.html .

> A small problem is the syntax to pass
> several options. --diff-options "-a -b -c" is not really satisfying,
> because baz would have to do the tokenization which is usually the task of
> the shell. You can imagine --diff-options -a -b -c \; (like find -exec),
> or --diff-option -a --diff-option -b --diff-option -c.

Ok.  Or à la CVS, where unrecognized options passed to `cvs diff' are
passed to `diff' (which turns out to be convenient from a user's
perspective).

Is someone already working on this (on baz I guess)?

Thanks,
Ludovic.