please do your diffs right

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2 total messages Started by Bruce Nemnich Mon, 26 Nov 1984 07:03

#335

Author: Bruce Nemnich
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1984 07:03

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Some people post diffs of fixes and enhancements with the file order
backwards; they tell one how to get the original file from the modified
version.  

Such diffs are not only confusing to humans, they are useless for
automatic updating with the recently posted patch utility.

Please do the diffs in the correct order, e.g., 'diff -c old new'.
-- 
--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa

Re: please do your diffs right

#340

Author: Larry Wall
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1984 22:24

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In article <529@godot.UUCP> bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) writes:
>Some people post diffs of fixes and enhancements with the file order
>backwards; they tell one how to get the original file from the modified
>version.  
>
>Such diffs are not only confusing to humans, they are useless for
>automatic updating with the recently posted patch utility.
>
>Please do the diffs in the correct order, e.g., 'diff -c old new'.
>-- 
>--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
>  ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa

This was true when it was written, but isn't true now.  I also believe in
"Thinking Machines".  The latest revision of patch, just posted, will detect
reversed diffs and apply them correctly.

(In fact, it was in response to the above note that I put the feature in.
Thank you, Bruce, for the idea.)

The new version (1.2) is in net.sources.  Known bugs have also been fixed.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

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