On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Erik Auerswald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > while CONTRIBUTING.md asks for unified diff format and it is suggested to > use 'git diff' which creates unified diff output, the file 'develop.txt' > claims that context diff format is preferred. The attached patch changes > the latter file to prefer unified diff as well. > > Thanks, > Erik > -- > If it ain't broke, don't fix it. > > In practice, Bram publishes his patches to the vim_dev list and the http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/8.0/ directory in the older "non-unified" context diff format but accepts unified-diff patches submitted by contributors. I won't second-guess him though: does he indeed prefer -c or does he regard -c and -u as equally human-readable? Don't ask me. IMHO the help _could_ be modified to mention unified diff (and the git diff format, which clones of the Mercurial mirror can also produce) but (non-unified) context diff _should_ be kept in. Best regards, Tony. P.S. It wasn't broke, so why are you fixing it? :-P -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
