Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Nick Allen]
>> Unfortunately, restore does not do the same for unified_diff. I do
>> not see any similar function that is intended for unified_diff. Does
>> anyone know how to "restore" from a unified diff generated delta?
>
> That's in general impossible, since unified diffs generally omit most
> lines that compared equal to begin with. Unified and context diffs
> are, in part, compression gimmicks, showing only what changed plus a
> bit of context. ndiff shows everything, so can restore everything
> too.
The unix patch utility seems to do a fine job of handling the unix
unified and context diffs. Unified is the preferred format for the
open source projects I contribute patches to.
Possibly this is some other form of "unified diff" than what you get
from "diff -u" on a Unix system?
<mike
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