Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:54, Brett C. wrote: > > >>I thought at one point this question came up and the general consensus was that >>unified diffs were preferred? > > > Back in the day, we preferred context diffs, and I think of the original > Python core group, Guido was the last holdout. But IIRC, a few years > ago the issue came up again; Guido had changed his mind so we changed > syncmail to produce unified diffs. > Eh. Guido doesn't deal with patches anymore, so his opinion doesn't count. =) > IMO unifieds are preferred when the diffs are for human consumption, but > when they're only for machine consumption, anything that the patch > program accepts is fine. > OK, it seems like everyone who cares enough to speak up has said so far that unified diffs are better I will change the docs some time between now and when I keel over dead to have people use unified diffs assuming some rush of people don't suddenly start saying they prefer contextual diffs. -Brett
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