[MERGE] Bzr diff produces -p1 diffs

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 20:54:28 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On  6 Mar 2006, Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Well, the idea is, that you can't really create a recursive -p0 diff
> > with plain diff and two trees. 
> 
> That's an interesting point; I suppose that's why Linus uses it?

I suppose that too.

> > However it's true that many version control systems generate -p0
> > diffs. But Arch generates -p1 ones and it should be precedent for bzr,
> > no?
> 
> I suppose for me it really depends on how much disruption this is
> expected to cause for things like bzrtools.  Any opinions?

Bzr is still in development. I think it's more important to find most
reasonable default behaviour, than to maintain compatibility. And there
seems to be the demand to generate -p1 patches.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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