On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:56 PM, William A. Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. If I remember correctly, you and I had a long discussion about > those patch files, in which I was totally against them, and you argued for > them. I think they are there now mostly because of you. I'm still against > them and consider them a waste of time, just like the log in SPKG.txt. I am > glad we now agree. >
The one use they do have is that they allow you to view previous changes in the history without having to go back and download the original version of source file in order to see the differences. For example, if I wanted to see the state of a patch from a few versions ago, then I couldn't just look in the history, I'd have to go download the old version, find the file, and then run diff. --Mike -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
