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bug#20290: 25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default, and recommend us


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#20290: 25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default, and recommend using it in reports and patches
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:33:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

What's the reason for changing the long-standing default?

    * Use `diff -c' to make your diffs.  Diffs without context are hard
     to install reliably.  More than that, they are hard to study; we
     must always study a patch to decide whether we want to install it.
     Unidiff format is better than contextless diffs, but not as easy
     to read as `-c' format.

Also, one day is not long enough to allow people time to respond,
for any Emacs issue.





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