RFE: Add -p to the diff options to provide more context in commit mails

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Apr 27 21:44:11 UTC 2009


On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:35:41 -0400
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> wrote:

> This trivial patch adds more context to the diffs in commit mails:
> 
> --- CVSROOT.orig/syncmail
> +++ CVSROOT/syncmail
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def calculate_diff(filespec):
>          brief = ""
>          if optNoDiff:
>              brief = "--brief"
> -        diffcmd = '/usr/bin/cvs -f diff %s -kk -u -N -r %s -r %s %s'
> % (
> +        diffcmd = '/usr/bin/cvs -f diff %s -kk -u -p -N -r %s -r %s
> %s' % ( brief,
>              oldrev, newrev, file)
>          fp = os.popen(diffcmd)
> 

I have added this patch to syncmail. 

Please let me know if you spot any problems with it. 

kevin
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