April 13, 2005
8:49 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:54, Brett C. wrote:
I thought at one point this question came up and the general consensus was that unified diffs were preferred?
Back in the day, we preferred context diffs, and I think of the original Python core group, Guido was the last holdout. But IIRC, a few years ago the issue came up again; Guido had changed his mind so we changed syncmail to produce unified diffs. IMO unifieds are preferred when the diffs are for human consumption, but when they're only for machine consumption, anything that the patch program accepts is fine. -Barry