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Re: unified diff and context diff
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: unified diff and context diff |
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Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:43:46 +0100 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Either form works for either case. But for readability purposes,
> documentation patches tend to modify sentences, and it is nice to see the
> before and after effect of a partial sentence without having lots of lines
> in between. And code patches tend to modify logical blocks that are
> easier to read in entirety rather than with interruptions from the old
> version of code.
Yes, exactly.
There's also a program 'ud2cd' which converts a unified diff to a context diff
a posteriori, and 'cd2ud' which converts a context diff to a unified diff. [1]
Bruno
[1] http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/diffconvert-1.4.tar.gz
Re: [patch] doc/gnulib-too.texi, Matthew Woehlke, 2008/03/07