On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 07:26, Brett C. wrote:
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.
Should probably say either context or unified diffs - I'm sure there's vendor supplied 'diff' programs out there that don't support -u
ed-style patches, of course, are RIGHT OUT.
It might be worth mentioning that if/when subversion is used to replace CVS, unified diffs are going to be the obvious way to do it, because I don't think that subversion supports context diffs without using an external diff command. -bob