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From: | Bruce Korb |
Subject: | Re: Easier to read diff -u output |
Date: | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:27:34 -0800 |
However, project maintainers that have to carefully examine patches that people send them probably won't like this because they will have to scan these complicated lines very carefully to determine whether the line has changed or not. If we only absorb very simple lines, it's immediately obvious.
Patching source is not the only use of "diff -u". The primary use of your enhancement is for human readability. In fact, it removes any continued interest (for me) for using the ``-c'' option. Besides, it is trivial to derive the minimal diff: cp target target-old patch < readable-diff diff -u --minimalist target-old target Thank you again! Regards, Bruce
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