Re: context diffs: why have ! stand for two different things?

[Russ Allbery]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

> I just had a quick flash that in context diffs "!" showing changed
> lines is dumb and should be made into two symbols, <, > [duh]
> distinguishing old and new lines... you see I have a tiny screen and
> often one only is looking at the middle of a chunk and forgets if it
> is the old or new part... ok, never mind.

I'm afraid that the syntax for context diffs is at this point pretty much
set in stone, but you may find unified context diffs more readable (the -u
option instead of the -c option).  Opinions on that are split.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>