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authoratatat <atatat@pkgsrc.org>2003-06-14 19:12:40 +0000
committeratatat <atatat@pkgsrc.org>2003-06-14 19:12:40 +0000
commitaf2afefc251efb4324c00c310db4dedc99033d21 (patch)
tree5e8c8827ce6cd4a5febc547d44480f12f310273d /pkgtools/pkgdiff/files/pkgdiff.1
parente239c6dd3a073a1d8c32459cba7693d002a0d23d (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-af2afefc251efb4324c00c310db4dedc99033d21.tar.gz
Add support to pkgdiff for the environment variable PKGDIFF_FMT. This
allows you to get context style or plain diffs from mkpatches or pkgdiff, instead of the default unified format. Sometimes it's very nice to be able to look at a different diff format.
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diff --git a/pkgtools/pkgdiff/files/pkgdiff.1 b/pkgtools/pkgdiff/files/pkgdiff.1
index f4435816a5f..755dcac94bc 100644
--- a/pkgtools/pkgdiff/files/pkgdiff.1
+++ b/pkgtools/pkgdiff/files/pkgdiff.1
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pkgdiff.1,v 1.3 2001/12/03 19:03:22 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pkgdiff.1,v 1.4 2003/06/14 19:12:41 atatat Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 by Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@netbsd.org>
.\" All Rights Reserved. Absolutely no warranty.
.\"
-.Dd May 14, 2000
+.Dd Jun 14, 2003
.Dt PKGDIFF 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ not include any RCS IDs.
.Ar options
can be any options that are allowed for
.Xr diff 1 .
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
+.Ss PKGDIFF_FMT
+The flags passed to
+.Xr diff 1
+when generating patches.
+If not set, the flags
+.Fl u
+and
+.Fl p
+are used.
+Though only unified format patches are used in pkgsrc as proper
+patches, sometimes it can be useful to have context or plain diffs
+available.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cvs 1 ,
.Xr diff 1 ,