In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Hubbard writes:
>> Unified diffs are also context diffs.
>>
>> Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context
>> around the changed lines, unlike normal diffs.
>
>Erm, no. :)
>
>Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the
>meta-data format which changes. In the case of unidiffs, the
>presentation of multiple diffs in one file is rather more readable and
>easy to edit without throwing off patch(1), otherwise they look almost
>identical in their presentation of "undisturbed context" for one diff:
I repeat, with added emphasis:
>> Unified diffs are *also* context diffs.
>>
>> Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context
>> around the changed lines, unlike *normal* diffs.
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