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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 20290@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20290: 25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default, and recommend using it in reports and patches
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:33:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5d23ce8u4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bnix6p9l.fsf@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 2015 23:05:42 +0300")


What's the reason for changing the long-standing default?

    * Use `diff -c' to make your diffs.  Diffs without context are hard
     to install reliably.  More than that, they are hard to study; we
     must always study a patch to decide whether we want to install it.
     Unidiff format is better than contextless diffs, but not as easy
     to read as `-c' format.

Also, one day is not long enough to allow people time to respond,
for any Emacs issue.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-09 20:05 bug#20290: 25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default, and recommend using it in reports and patches Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-10  7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 11:59   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-10  7:33 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-04-10 12:26   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-10 15:55     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-10 17:13       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-12 23:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-13  3:03   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-14  2:16   ` Dmitry Gutov

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