Marko Kreen wrote:
On 10/24/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
As we seem discussing developement in general, there is one
obstacle in the way of individual use of DSCMs - context diff
format as only one accepted.
Well, that's not a hard-and-fast rule, just a preference. At least for
me, unidiff is vastly harder to read than cdiff for anything much beyond
one-line changes. (For one-liners it's great ;-), but beyond that it
intermixes old and new lines too freely.) That's not merely an
impediment to quick review of the patch; if there's any manual
patch-merging to be done, it significantly increases the risk of error.
I don't recall that we've rejected any patches lately just because they
were unidiffs. But I'd be sad if a large fraction of incoming patches
started to be unidiffs.
Thanks, maybe the DEVFAQ can be changed that both -u and -c are
accepted but -c is preferred.
The matter of -c vs. -u is mostly a matter of taste and habit but
there is also a technical argument - you can always clean up
hard-to-read unidiff with simple /^-/d. But there is no simple
way to make hard-to-read context diff readable.
I would rather stick generally to one style. It's a question of whose
convenience prevails, the author's or the reviewer's. I think it should
be the reviewer's, and since Tom reviews far more than anyone else his
voice accordingly matters most.
cheers
andrew
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