Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:34:13 -0700 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: What are the best diff options ? Message-ID: <XFMail.011028093413.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011027104214.A7633@rhadamanth>
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On 27-Oct-01 setantae wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm going to spend this morning cleaning up a few manpages, etc. > > http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html indicates that the best > options > to diff would just be a simple -c. diff -u is more compact and in many case preferred. Sometimes however if the new code is completely different from the old code, diff -c is more readable as you get to see the old code in its entirety and then the new code instead of seeing them all intermixed with each other. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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