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author | 2003-07-10 16:06:07 +0000 | |
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committer | 2003-07-10 16:06:07 +0000 | |
commit | d407ca27a76d17dcb9524af8c510c420d22b10e7 (patch) | |
tree | e539c5f47a58fa30c219a7b2e24ecc0504c75fcf /usr.bin/diff3/diff3.1 | |
parent | - working emulation for POPC instruction (diff) | |
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A matching diff3 from 32V w/ some UCB changes. I cleaned this up a bit
(KNF and -Wall) and rewrote the shell front-end.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/diff3/diff3.1 b/usr.bin/diff3/diff3.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..816e983262a --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/diff3/diff3.1 @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: diff3.1,v 1.1 2003/07/10 16:06:07 millert Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)diff3.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 +.\" +.Dd April 18, 1994 +.Dt DIFF3 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm diff3 +.Nd 3-way differential file comparison +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm diff3 +.Op Fl aexEX3 +.Ar file1 file2 file3 +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility compares the contents of three different versions of a file, +.Ar file1 , +.Ar file2 +and +.Ar file3 , +writing the result to the standard output. +The options describe different methods of merging and +purging +the separate versions into a new file. +.Nm +is used by +.Xr RCS 1 +to merge specific versions or create +new versions. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width "-E, -X" +.It Fl a +Treat all files as ASCII. +.It Fl e +Produces output in a form suitable as an input script for the +.Xr ed 1 +utility. +The script may then be used to merge differences common between all +three files and differences specific to +.Ar file1 +and +.Ar file3 . +In other words, the +.Fl e +option ignores differences specific to +.Ar file1 +and +.Ar file2 , +and those specific to +.Ar file2 +and +.Ar file3 . +It is useful for backing out changes specific to +.Ar file2 +only. +.It Fl x +Produces an output script suitable for +.Xr ed 1 +with changes +specific only to all three versions. +.It Fl 3 +Produces an output script suitable for +.Xr ed 1 +with changes +specific only to +.Ar file3 . +.It Fl E , X +Similar to +.Fl e +and +.Fl x , +respectively, but treat overlapping changes (i.e., changes that would +be noted with ==== in the normal listing) differently. +The overlapping lines from both files will be inserted by the edit script, +bracketed by "<<<<<<" and ">>>>>>" lines. +.El +.Pp +The +.Fl E +option is used by +.Tn RCS +.Xr merge 1 +to ensure that overlapping changes in the merged files are preserved +and brought to someone's attention. +.Pp +For example, suppose lines 7-8 are changed in both +.Ar file1 +and +.Ar file2 . +Applying the edit script generated by the command +.Pp +.Dl diff3 -E file1 file2 file3 +.Pp +to +.Ar file1 +results in the file: +.Pp +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +lines 1-6 +of file1 +<<<<<<< file1 +lines 7-8 +of file1 +======= +lines 7-8 +of file3 +>>>>>>> file3 +rest of file1 +.Ed +.Pp +The default output of +.Nm +makes notation of the differences between all files, and those +differences specific to each pair of files. +The changes are described by the commands necessary for +.Xr ed 1 +to create the desired target from the different versions. +See +.Xr diff 1 +for a description of the commands. +.Bl -tag -width "=====" +.It Li \&==== +The lines beneath this notation are ranges of lines which are different +between all files. +.It \&==== Ns Va n +The lines beneath this notation are ranges of lines which are exclusively +different in file +.Va n . +.El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width TMPDIR +.It Ev TMPDIR +If the environment variable +.Ev TMPDIR +exists, +.Nm +will use the directory specified by +.Ev TMPDIR +as the temporary directory. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /usr/libexec/diff3prog -compact +.It Pa /tmp/d3a.XXXXXXXXXX +temporary file +.It Pa /tmp/d3b.XXXXXXXXXX +temporary file +.It Pa /usr/libexec/diff3 +the actual executable +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr diff 1 , +.Xr ed 1 , +.Xr merge 1 +.Xr rcs 1 +.Sh BUGS +The +.Fl e +option cannot catch and change lines which have +.Ql \&. +as the first and only character on the line. +The resulting script will fail on that line +as +.Ql \&. +is an +.Xr ed 1 +editing command. +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command appeared in +.At v7 . |