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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:39:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing articl
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020729083938.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020729142237.C18707@abigail.blackend.org>

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On 29-Jul-2002 Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:39:05AM -0700, Chern Lee wrote:
>> chern       2002/07/29 04:39:05 PDT
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing article.sgml 
>>   Log:
>>   We prefer unified diffs.
>>   
>>   Change 'context diff' -> 'unified diff'
>>   
>>   PR:             docs/38728
>>   Submitted by:   Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.488     +3 -3      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml
> 
> -     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>diff -c oldfile newfile</userinput></screen>
> +     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>diff -u -c oldfile newfile</userinput></screen>
> 
>       or
>                
> -     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>diff -c -r olddir newdir</userinput></screen>
> +     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>diff -u -c -r olddir newdir</userinput></screen>
> 
> -c -u ? It will result in output style conflicts.

Hmm, it should only use one.  Plus, I think that saying one is always
preferred over another isn't correct.  If you've completely rewritten a
chunk of code, -c is often easier to read, but if you are changing stuff
within a few lones, -u is preferred.

> Marc

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