From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
vladimir@codesourcery.com, chgenly@gmail.com,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb.texinfo patch for -var-list-children (2)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090622150201.GA10191@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MIbMV-0000AD-Bu@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:42:31AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So if from now on we are going to request only unified diffs, we
> should at least change this text. FWIW, I don't think we should
> change this policy because it may prove inconvenient in some
> situations (e.g., the Patch utility produces reject files in context
> diff format). But that's me.
I agree that we should accept context diffs. I (strongly) prefer
unified, but there are some cases where a context diff is much easier
to read.
As for patch, I recently discovered --unified-reject-files - very useful.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-20 4:11 Chris Genly
2009-06-20 8:45 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-06-20 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-22 3:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-06-22 4:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-22 15:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-06-23 1:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-23 3:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-20 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-20 20:31 ` Chris Genly
2009-06-20 21:33 ` Chris Genly
2009-07-04 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-20 23:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-20 23:17 ` Samuel Bronson
2009-06-21 19:28 ` Chris Genly
2009-06-21 23:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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