From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:40:42 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu
Subject: diff|patch
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I don't get it.  As far as I can tell, context diffs and patch are not
a matter of unix compatability, creeping features, religious wars, or
anything like that.  It's just a fact that without patch applying these
updates is intolerably arduous, and without context diffs you have to
manually examine the files, split them into sections for patch, and
copy new files into place, and suffer a greater likelihood of error.
Why do it the hard way, when simple, effective, minimalistic, software
tools are available to do the job?