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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:57:57 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing diff's default output format 
Message-ID:  <52796.946457877@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:38:08 PST." <199912290138.RAA46356@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <199912290138.RAA46356@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:

>    On the other hand there is no good argument to change the default
>    except to 'catch the bozos who don't know about -u' since the rest of
>    us just use -u

I really don't think this is sufficient ground to change the default.

But it would make sense to modify GNATS to automatically barf back
to people who send non-context diffs.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!




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