Re: [Rails-devel] delurking with a quick ReportWindow fix

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Jonathan Ferro
<jon...@ya...> wrote:
>> It took me some trouble to apply these patches (I must add immediately that
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>> I have never worked with diff patches before).
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> The most recent information that I had is that "unified diff" was still the preferred format for beginning contributions.  If that should be changed, just let me know.
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> I don't see how to save the contents of an Eclipse "source compare" view in any meaningful way.  I must add that whenever a non-coding task can be performed in Cygwin/Emacs instead of Eclipse, I almost always do so. :-)
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> -- Jonathan
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>

I prefer unified diffs.  Not only are there a bunch of tools built
around using them, it is a very readable format for sending them in
e-mail and being able to comment on them.


---Brett.