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Re: $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL)


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:28:35 +0100

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I installed the following:
>
> Your patch is hard to understand for me in unidiff format, so I tried to
> convert it to context diff format, as usual, but this did not work:
>   $ ud2cd < acl.udiff
>   ud2cd: Warning: Incomplete hunk ending at line 87
>
> I understand that GNU diff can now emit variants of the well-known unidiff
> format, and you are using one of them. So I had to spend time updating the
> 'diffconvert' utilities to grok this (IMO pointless) variant, before I
> could look at your patch. They are at
>   http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/diffconvert-1.4.tar.gz

Thanks for adapting diffconvert.
I appreciate it, because I too use the new unidiff format
that omits the space before an empty output line.

I find the new format useful enough that I've also changed
my copy of git to make "git diff" work the same way.




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