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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:26:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201812311226.wBVCQtaH013032@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97f77b6c-1404-4bce-8266-be69084edab8@www.fastmail.com>

"David du Colombier" <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Let me restate the question.  When one has only the "new" file and
> > the ed script that created it from the "old" one, and said script
> > says "delete lines N through M", how does one recover the lines
> > that were deleted? (With context or unified diffs, the deleted text
> > is there.)
>
> I don't think you can "reverse" the ed scripts produced with "diff -e",
> unlike unified diff files.
>
> However, in 9hist, the files are always reconstructed forward,
> starting from the complete original file.

OK, then it makes sense then.

Much thanks!

Arnold



  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-31 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-28 19:07 hiro
2018-12-28 19:29 ` Steve Simon
2018-12-28 19:43   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-12-28 19:57     ` Ethan Gardener
2018-12-28 20:58       ` hiro
2018-12-28 23:00         ` David du Colombier
2018-12-28 21:15       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-12-28 21:23         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-12-28 21:51           ` Steve Simon
2018-12-29 10:05             ` hiro
2018-12-29 10:09               ` Steve Simon
2018-12-29 13:18                 ` David du Colombier
2018-12-29 20:29                   ` hiro
2018-12-30  9:46                     ` David du Colombier
2018-12-30 22:45                       ` Steve Simon
2018-12-30 22:52                         ` David du Colombier
2018-12-31  8:21                           ` Devon H. O'Dell
2018-12-31  8:51                             ` Lucio De Re
2018-12-31  9:50                             ` Steve Simon
2018-12-31 10:48                             ` David du Colombier
2018-12-31 12:34                             ` hiro
2018-12-31 12:46                               ` Lucio De Re
2018-12-31 14:02                                 ` hiro
2018-12-31  6:58                   ` arnold
2018-12-31  8:00                     ` Kurt H Maier
2018-12-31  9:49                       ` arnold
2018-12-31 11:11                         ` David du Colombier
2018-12-31 12:26                           ` arnold [this message]
2018-12-29  9:57           ` hiro
2018-12-29  8:59         ` Ethan Gardener
2018-12-29  9:53         ` hiro
2018-12-28 23:05     ` David du Colombier
2018-12-29  3:58       ` Lucio De Re
2018-12-29  9:14         ` Ethan Gardener
2018-12-29  9:30           ` Lucio De Re
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-31 15:48 sl
2008-11-30 12:33 [9fans] Sources down Rodolfo kix Garcia
2008-11-30 12:38 ` Richard Miller
2008-11-30 19:09   ` Roman Zhukov
2008-11-30 19:56     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-11-30 20:34       ` geoff
2008-11-30 20:37         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-04  2:43 [9fans] sources down geoff
2006-11-04  8:05 ` geoff
2006-11-06  3:42   ` geoff
2006-11-06 13:19     ` erik quanstrom

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