Ron Johnson wrote:
On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:<snip> The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file.That would sanely be called "patch", not "diff".
See man patch. diff consists of differences between files, and patch folds those differences back into the original.
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