Re: diff display

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 09/10/08 18:28, gary turner wrote:
> 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.

Then that should be:

$ patch --gen-diff

$ patch --apply-diff

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