Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote: >> It would be nice if there were to option to, instead of putting the diff >> of all packages in a single pager, each package's diff would appear in a >> separate pager, and that quitting the first pager would bring up the second. >> Currently, it is difficult to look at diffs from a specific package when >> another package has a lot of changes. > > I'm not sure this would necessarily be better from a usability > perspective. I think users would not like hitting q multiple times > when they want to get out fast. > > Have you considered searching for the term diffstat? That puts you at > the top of the next diff almost 100% of the time.
There is no diffstat in the output I see. Rather, one patch just follows another: diff -Nru iproute2-3.10.0/tc/tc_qdisc.c iproute2-3.11.0/tc/tc_qdisc.c --- iproute2-3.10.0/tc/tc_qdisc.c 2013-07-16 13:06:36.000000000 -0400 +++ iproute2-3.11.0/tc/tc_qdisc.c 2013-09-03 11:23:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -137,15 +137,15 @@ [diff elided] diff -Nru libass-0.10.0/Changelog libass-0.10.1/Changelog --- libass-0.10.0/Changelog 2011-09-25 11:51:25.000000000 -0400 +++ libass-0.10.1/Changelog 2012-10-04 08:17:22.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ [diff elided] If there were some consistent header (akin to Index) in between packages I could search for that. Something like "Package: ..." Though this might confuse a program like patch, if this program is just passing to a pager this might be an option. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (m...@md5i.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
