[Python-Dev] Unified or context diffs?

[Brett C.]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 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.
> 

I personally like unified diffs a lot more since you can see exactly how a line
changed compared to the previous version, but that's me.  I just checked the
dev FAQ and it consistently says contextual diffs as well.

> Brett can probably guess why I'm asking :)
> 

=)

> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> [1] http://www.python.org/patches/
> 

I didn't even know that page existed!

I thought at one point this question came up and the general consensus was that
unified diffs were preferred?

-Brett