Hi Jerome, > Now that I took a look at it, in particular the diff documentation > [2], I am a little bit confused... > Most patches that I see daily are in the form of unified diff. The > diff POSIX standard doesn't seem to define unified diff. It does > support context diff (with option -c) which matches the most closely > what I know as unified diff but has some differences in its format. > > Isn't that surprising?
Agreed, it is. Looks like the unified diff format is a GNU extension. Still, this is the most used one as far as I can see, and the more easily readable im my opinion. This proves that de facto standards are sometimes more useful than official ones. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
