Re: [DOCS] 6.5.3 diff

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, webmaster(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] 6.5.3 diff
Date: 1999-11-08 23:37:49
Message-ID: 199911082337.SAA29805@candle.pha.pa.us
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> 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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