Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

From: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4
Date: 2007-10-24 12:17:08
Message-ID: 471F37C4.1000206@gmx.at
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Alvaro Herrera write:
> Marko Kreen escribió:
>
>> As we seem discussing developement in general, there is one
>> obstacle in the way of individual use of DSCMs - context diff
>> format as only one accepted. Both leading DSCMs - GIT and Mercurial
>> do not support it.
>
> Hmm, in Subversion you can specify a separate diff command and args,
> which can be used to generate context diffs. Is it not possible with
> git/Hg?

It's possible in Mercurial, too. There is a bundled extension (extdiff,
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ExtdiffExtension) which
can do that. You can configure your own command aliases, e.g. "hg cdiff
..." to do -c diffs.

Best Regards
Michael Paesold

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