Kees Dekker wrote:
I've no choice to move away from Windows.
You don't need to. Microsoft ships GNU diff as part of an optional MS-Windows subsystem. This should be a lot less work for us maintainers than trying to maintain a separate MS-Windows "native" port (whatever "native" means) for GNU diff. See:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
in which format do you like to get it. UNIX style patch?
"git format-patch" format, where the commit message uses GNU ChangeLog style. See the existing git repository for examples of this. The changes should be minimal and cleanly separable from the mainline source, and using the same style as what we have now.
