Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: New improved formatting of chunk header in diff

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 8, 2006, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzmb1r4yu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200611082158.43652.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> O.K. This one introduced new feature, and wasn't needed for earlier 
> accepted patch (output empty patches) to have sense. And it is rc1 
> phase...

I personally do not mind minor gitweb 'feature' updates in -rc cycle, just like I am planning to see if there are gitk updates I haven't pulled from Paulus (I think there is at least one patch from last month or so), unless the changes do not break it so badly.

> By the way, where I can find proper specifiction of unified diff format? 
> Do I understand correctly that bot from and to ranges can be without 
> number of lines part if it simplifies to 0?

When Linus did apply.c and I did diff.c, we primarily worked off of sources to GNU patch.

There is a POSIX draft proposal now.

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag-review/msg02077.html

See also updates about the proposal.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/29331/focus=29389