Hi, On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Richard Biener wrote:
> > I'm probably the last person in the world that still generally prefers > > -cp :-) I'm getting to the point where I can tolerate -u. > > No, I prefer -cp too - diff just too easily makes a mess out of diffs > with -u, esp. if you have re-indenting going on as well. Actually -c was the recommended form of sending patches for many years even in our own guidelines. It only got changed to -up or -cp when moving instructions from the texinfo files to the website in 2001. From gcc 3.0 (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0/gcc_10.html): Use `diff -c' to make your diffs. Diffs without context are hard for us to install reliably. More than that, they make it hard for us to study the diffs to decide whether we want to install them. Unidiff format is better than contextless diffs, but not as easy to read as `-c' format. If you have GNU diff, use `diff -cp', which shows the name of the function that each change occurs in. ;-) (IMHO it depends on what the patch does if -c or -u is better, if the _change_ is important -u might be better, if the new state is the more interesting thing, -c is) Ciao, Michael.
