At 07:09 PM 12/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Jesper Andersen wrote:
>
>>Was running through a patch-file today. And couldnt figure out what a ! is
>>used for. - will delete a line, and + adds a line. But what does a ! do?
>
>Replace the line with the line in the other block.
>
>Generally I find that obnoxious so I use the unified format.
>
Same reason I find all those spaces in your patches annoying :-P
I hand-patch so it gets bothersome to go through about 200 lines
worth of code, just to find out that there was a SPACING problem
throughout the whole thing.
:-P
anyway, my $((1 << 1)/100) worth = Keep space changes out of patches.
(for those hand-patchers)
Akuma the Raging Coder
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