format for source diffs

[jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com]

i can't say i'm thrilled about either of those options.

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jmk@plan9.att.com writes:
| I'd like to make the source changes for aux/vga available, what should the 
| format be?

The bundle plus diff would work, but it might be nice to take advantage
of patch's functionality, since most people will be using it anyway and
it can automatically create new files from context diffs built with -Nc
or -Nu.  That would require augmenting /bin/diff or porting gnu diff,
of course.