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From: fnf (Fred Fish)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 patches
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:56:27 -0700 (MST)
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> I think the GNU standards recommend context diffs. Main reason
> probably is that it makes merging easier. And there shouldn't be that
> much difference in size after compressing.
As far as I know, "patch" can handle unified diffs just as well as normal
context diffs, so ease of merging shouldn't be an issue unless you do
some of it by hand (which does sometimes happen if there are reject hunks).
Does anyone know differently?
But it is a good point, that if you expect to feed the diffs to the patch
program to merge them into a later version, and you get rejects, it may
be easier to deal with the rejects if they are in context form.
-Fred