Re: git diff script is not portable

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 19:54:49 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Looking here:
> 
>     http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Git
> 
> the script we recommend for doing context diffs for git,
> git-external-diff, is not portable:
> 
>     http://anarazel.de/pg/git-external-diff
> 
> It uses diff -L, which is not supported by FreeBSD, and I imagine many
> other operating systems.
> 
> If we want people to use this to produce context diffs, we should
> provide a portable script.  I can modify it to be portable, but it is
> currently hosted on some other site.  How should I handle this?    How
> do I contact the author, or perhaps I should create a new on on
> ftp.postgresql.org and link to that.
If you have changes I am happy to change the script - but hosting it a 
*.postgresql.org domain might be a good idea anyway.

Andres