Re: unified vs context diffs (was Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request)

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Hari Babu <haribabu(dot)kommi(at)huawei(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
Subject: Re: unified vs context diffs (was Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request)
Date: 2013-02-24 17:39:38
Message-ID: CAGTBQpartOmBJeppiL--sDWUGOUsiiiN=POfw9sVw0kC5+GLkQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com) wrote:
>> So if you want to be kind to readers, look at the patch and choose
>> the format depending on which one makes it look better. But there's
>> no need to make a point of it when someone posts in "wrong" format.
>
> To be more precise- my main complaint about this is that this patch is
> making changes to multi-line comments and to documentation, both of
> which get very annoying to try and read in uniform diff format.
> Patches that don't do one or the other of those are likely incomplete
> anyway.
>
> As another point, it's also the very first thing that we document in
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch to check for.

TBH, that wiki link seems to suggest that *having context* is the
point of the requirement (to be able to merge with fuzz).

Both unified and context formats have context.

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