Barry Warsaw wrote:
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.
Eh. Guido doesn't deal with patches anymore, so his opinion doesn't count. =)
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.
OK, it seems like everyone who cares enough to speak up has said so far that unified diffs are better I will change the docs some time between now and when I keel over dead to have people use unified diffs assuming some rush of people don't suddenly start saying they prefer contextual diffs. -Brett