From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 28 9:34:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA1B37B405 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32623 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2001 17:34:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Oct 2001 17:34:13 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011027104214.A7633@rhadamanth> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:34:13 -0700 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: setantae Subject: RE: What are the best diff options ? Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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