Subject: Re: Patches
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 16:44:47 CDT
Personally I far prefer unified diffs, probably becasue I know to read
them. Don't want to start another opinion war, but I think the consensus
is that most people who have CVS commit access prefer unified diffs.
Cheers,
Aaron Lehmann
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:
> sam> Additionally, if you aren't working with CVS, you can use the
> sam> UNIX command line diff program, like so
>
> foo> diff -r old-tree new-tree > cool.patch
>
> Is there any disadvantage (to the process or to the people looking at
> the patches) to using "-c" context diffs? I usually use them because
> I find them easier to read, but I could easily stop if it causes and
> inconvenience for someone else.
> --
> bill@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119
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