GNU bug report logs - #20290
25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default, and recommend using it in reports and patches

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 20:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 20290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 20290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20290: 25.0.50; Use unified diff format by default,
 and recommend using it in reports and patches
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:13:43 +0300

On 04/10/2015 06:55 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> The refinement works well with context diffs.

Good point: it helps with their downside.

However, the other person was unfamiliar with the context format, and 
myself, simply uncomfortable with it.

> That's where the refinement helps in the same way as with unified diffs.

And even more so, I'd say.
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