From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: webmaster@postgreSQL.org, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] 6.5.3 diff
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:37:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <199911082337.SAA29805@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38275B14.691F4E38@wgcr.org>
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > Not what program, what set of arguments for the diff command...no matter
> > what I seem to try, someone doesn't like the patch :)
>
> There's so many different arguments.... 'diff -uNr postgresql-6.5.x.orig
> postgresql-6.5.x' works for me, and is what I use in preparing the
> patchsets for the RPM's. Of course, that presupposes that there is a
> whole '.orig' tree laying around to diff against, but I fugre that's a
> given.
>
While we are on the topic, can someone explain why unified diffs are
better than context diffs. I find unified diffs hard to read.
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