On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:05:21PM -0700, zooko@mad-scientist.com wrote:
I followed the instructions[1] on SourceForge to get mail sent to my development list about CVS commits. Someone requested unified diffs instead of context diffs, and I agreed, so I made the following patch to syncmail, which passes the "-u" and "--minimal" flags to CVS diff, and which strips out unnecessary (to me) header lines from the cvs diff output.
Uhm, I'm right in assuming this changes it for *all* checkin messages, and not based on who gets the message, right ? I hope Barry doesn't apply it then ;) I used to prefer unified over context, but the python-checkins list has made me seen the light. Context diffs make it much easier to see both the old and the new code. This is highly personal, of course ;P Isn't there a tool that translates context diffs to unified diffs and vice-versa (if Barry does apply this patch, I will need it myself ;)
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