Re: diffing directories with merged-as-deleted files? (original) (raw)

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• From: amylaar at spamcop dot net
• To: Giovanni Bajo
• Cc: Joern RENNECKE , gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
• Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:32:27 -0500
• Subject: Re: diffing directories with merged-as-deleted files?

cvs would never do such nonsense.

Absolutely! It would just print all the directory names in the middle of the diffs. I call that nonsense as well.

But the directory names go to stderr. When you redirect stdout to a file, a diff without the directory names is written to that file, while you get an ongoing progress report.