[Mailman-Developers] I patched syncmail to look prettier to my eyes.

[Thomas Wouters]

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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