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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 14:11:47 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: diff -u
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At 06:07 PM 12/27/00 +0200, you wrote:
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 >On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
 >> The -c diffs is very hard for me (humans?) to decypher.
 >
 >Some people say the same about -u.
 >
 >Personally, I don't care either way.  But others who read and apply
 >the patches should speak up.

FWIW, I don't tend to use the diffs to "see" the changes, and I'm very 
used to -u diffs from experience with p5p, the perl 5 porters list 
(where it is required).

My vote is for -u.

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