Re: [Quilt-dev] [OT] 'headers' in patches

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Jerome,

> Now that I took a look at it, in particular the diff documentation
> [2], I am a little bit confused...
> Most patches that I see daily are in the form of unified diff. The
> diff POSIX standard doesn't seem to define unified diff. It does
> support context diff (with option -c) which matches the most closely
> what I know as unified diff but has some differences in its format.
> 
> Isn't that surprising?

Agreed, it is. Looks like the unified diff format is a GNU extension.
Still, this is the most used one as far as I can see, and the more
easily readable im my opinion. This proves that de facto standards are
sometimes more useful than official ones.

-- 
Jean Delvare