From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 14 05:49:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20922 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca37-18.ix.netcom.com [207.93.141.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20895 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id FAA00179; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:48:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:48:46 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802141348.FAA00179@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: sprice@HiWAAY.net CC: brian@Awfulhak.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <34E3BC84.3F54BC7E@hiwaay.net> (message from Steve Price on Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:22:44 -0600) Subject: Re: ftp://freebsd.org - RIP From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Yes it can be in any format. I happen to prefer unified diffs * because they are easier for me to fix tab->space expansions among * other things. My personal preference only. Yes, it's usually easier to read (although there are exceptions...some C programs look pretty bad in unidiff), and almost always easier to fix. Especially when there is a one-line change that I want to negate (like diffs that change "$Id: ..." to "$Id$"), it's a simple matter of "yypr+jdd" or "r jdd" (that's vi-speak). As for the handbook, it doesn't say unidiff or context diff explicitly, but it gives "diff -ruN" as the example on how to create recursive diffs. It seems most ports people prefer unidiff, so I'll add a note about unidiff generally making people happier. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message