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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: A fun little burrowing diff
Message-ID: <6900@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 02:22:01 GMT
References: <12253@sci.UUCP> <322@gauss.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <322@gauss.rutgers.edu> by linhart@gauss.rutgers.edu (D-ro 3):
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| In article <12253@sci.UUCP> richd@sci.UUCP (Rich doherty) writes:
| >1) I have no idea the "right" way to diff, having never used patch
| >   or any other net programs designed to make such things easy.
| >   So it is standard diff(1) output.
| 
| You had the right idea, you just didn't look at the switches.
| The right way to diff is to use the -c switch to make a context
| difference, which changes lines when the lines around it match, rather
| than an ed diff, which changes lines by line number.  An ed diff can
| screw up an already-modified file.  Also, the -b switch will keep diff
| from including lines where you only changed the number of spaces in
| indentations and such.
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...assuming he's running 4.xBSD instead of System V, Xenix, Microport, V7,
et cetera ad nauseam....

Would someone please post a PD diff which supports -c and -b?  System V has
neither option.  I've got "diffc" on ncoast (converts diff output into diff
-c output), but it still doesn't handle -b and it's the OLD (4.2) diff -c
rather than the NEW (4.3BSD) diff -c.
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