Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.
On Thu, Aug 06 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> So... you all realize, right, that old-style context diffs and unified
> diffs can be trivially converted into each other? They have the same
> amount of information.
>
> filterdiff --format=unified < context.diff
> filterdiff --format=context < unified.diff
>
> (filterdiff comes with patchutils.) Given that, this seems like a tempest
> in a teapot to me. Just convert the diff into whatever format the tool
> that you're using expects or the reviewer wants to read.
>
> diff -c diffs are somewhat easier to read in some specific circumstances,
> usually involving significant code rewrites, than diff -u diffs.
Also, emacs diff-mode does this in the buffer for you, so you
don't need to even have filterdiff installed, assuming you worship at
the altar of the one true editor.
manoj
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