Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>   
>> "Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
>>     
>>> As we seem discussing developement in general, there is one
>>> obstacle in the way of individual use of DSCMs - context diff
>>> format as only one accepted.
>>>       
>> Well, that's not a hard-and-fast rule, just a preference.  At least for
>> me, unidiff is vastly harder to read than cdiff for anything much beyond
>> one-line changes.  (For one-liners it's great ;-), but beyond that it
>> intermixes old and new lines too freely.)  That's not merely an
>> impediment to quick review of the patch; if there's any manual
>> patch-merging to be done, it significantly increases the risk of error.
>>
>> I don't recall that we've rejected any patches lately just because they
>> were unidiffs.  But I'd be sad if a large fraction of incoming patches
>> started to be unidiffs.
>>     
>
> Thanks, maybe the DEVFAQ can be changed that both -u and -c are
> accepted but -c is preferred.
>
> The matter of -c vs. -u is mostly a matter of taste and habit but
> there is also a technical argument - you can always clean up
> hard-to-read unidiff with simple /^-/d.  But there is no simple
> way to make hard-to-read context diff readable.
>
>   

I would rather stick generally to one style. It's a question of whose 
convenience prevails, the author's or the reviewer's. I think it should 
be the reviewer's, and since Tom reviews far more than anyone else his 
voice accordingly matters most.

cheers

andrew