Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@iinet.net.au> writes:
Are context diffs still favoured for patches?
If you want me to review it, yes, probably, but see below...
The patch submission guidelines [1] still say that, but is it actually true these days? I personally prefer unified diffs, but have been generating context diffs because of what the guidelines say.
Emacs 21's diff-mode can convert between the two with a keypress. People who continue to abuse themselves by not using Emacs can probably find other tools to do this job. So *I* don't regard this as a big deal. Plain diffs are of course, right out. Cheers, mwh -- It is never worth a first class man's time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that. -- G. H. Hardy