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Re: gdb.texinfo patch for -var-list-children (2)

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:42:31AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So if from now on we are going to request only unified diffs, we
> should at least change this text.  FWIW, I don't think we should
> change this policy because it may prove inconvenient in some
> situations (e.g., the Patch utility produces reject files in context
> diff format).  But that's me.

I agree that we should accept context diffs.  I (strongly) prefer
unified, but there are some cases where a context diff is much easier
to read.

As for patch, I recently discovered --unified-reject-files - very useful.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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