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Re: gratuitous changes
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: gratuitous changes |
Date: |
10 Feb 2003 10:47:53 +0900 |
Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> writes:
> And I always call diff with the -b option.
>
> The latter should avoid all problems you mention when merging
> differences.
Um, no. `diff -b' is only appropriate when generating patches for
humans to look at*, not for merging (and things like CVS don't allow such
behavior anyway).
* and even then, it's not always appropriate -- sometimes you _want_ to
see indentation changes or whatever
-Miles
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