[Python-Dev] Unified or context diffs?

[Michael Hudson]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> writes:

> Are context diffs still favoured for patches?

If you want me to review it, yes, probably, but see below...

> The patch submission guidelines [1] still say that, but is it actually
> true these days? I personally prefer unified diffs, but have been
> generating context diffs because of what the guidelines say.

Emacs 21's diff-mode can convert between the two with a keypress.
People who continue to abuse themselves by not using Emacs can
probably find other tools to do this job.  So *I* don't regard this as
a big deal.

Plain diffs are of course, right out.

Cheers,
mwh

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