On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 19:54, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 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.
Do it the git way - fork it and put it on your github page.
Or do it the pg way - fork it and put it in src/tools.
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