Re: [PATCH] Add the diff option --no-defaults

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Hi.

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Keith Cascio wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > And I still do not like the intrusiveness of your patch.  The last 
> > time we did something like that with options (some 
> > parseoptifications), we had a lot of fallout as a consequence.
> 
> [...]
>
> Peff expressed some specific concerns [...]

My concerns were also very specific: your patches are way too large.  
There is a rule of thumb that the likelihood of a bug is the square of the 
number of changed lines, I am sure you heard that before.

> [...] your patch adds at least ten lines outside of diff.h/diff.c.

That is _such_ a red herring.

Ciao,
Dscho

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