They are not the same. If you have a line in a help text which begins with the f character, then -F^f will catch that. -p is harder to fool. Regards NK ----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:19:20 +0200 From: Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard@killesreiter.de> To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] parameters for diff
Peter Wolanin wrote:
As far as I can tell, the commands:
"diff -u -F^f" and "diff -u -p"
produce the same output. However, the former seems to be preferred in the handbook documentation. Is there some reason to prefer it?
No, there is only a historical reason: When I read the diff docs -F^f made more sense to me. -p refers to C which isn't PHP. :p
Cheers, Gerhard
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