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Re: Easier to read diff -u output
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Dan Hipschman |
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Re: Easier to read diff -u output |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:42:12 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:27:34AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> 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
Good point. Maybe I'm being too conservative. I haven't gotten enough
feedback from anybody to know what people really want. The current
implementation actually does a really good job on the test inputs I've
tried, so maybe we don't need more heuristics (or, at least not yet).
Thanks