[Python-Dev] Unified or context diffs?

[Irmen de Jong]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Nick Coghlan]
> 
>>Are context diffs still favoured for patches?
>>
>>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.
> 
> 
> Submit whichever is the most informative.  For some changes, it is
> easier to see the changed lines immediately above and below each other.
> For others, it helps to be able to see the whole algorithm.

And for the 'patch' tool, it doesn't really matter what you use, right?

--Irmen