suggestion for /usr/src/UPDATING

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2004, at 4:36 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> >Ulrich Spoerlein <q at uni.de> writes:
> >>On Mon, 30.08.2004 at 09:31:06 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >>>Note, though, that this output has nothing to do with mergemaster -- 
> >>>it
> >>>is sdiff(1) that is used.  What you don't like is sdiff(1)'s output
> >>>format.
> >>Looks like one can't configure the used keys...
> >
> >Feel free to submit a patch.
> 
> OK.  Submitted as gnu/71210, diffs to the code are at:
> 
> http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/sdiff.diff
> 
> ...since the PR may have space-stuffed tabs.

The environment variable seems like a good idea.  Changing the default
is a very bad one.  My finger memory is just fine with sdiff and a
change would suck.

-- Brooks

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