please do your diffs right

Bruce Nemnich bruce at godot.UUCP
Mon Nov 26 17:03:04 AEST 1984


Some people post diffs of fixes and enhancements with the file order
backwards; they tell one how to get the original file from the modified
version.  

Such diffs are not only confusing to humans, they are useless for
automatic updating with the recently posted patch utility.

Please do the diffs in the correct order, e.g., 'diff -c old new'.
-- 
--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn at mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce at godot.arpa



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