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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:11:58 -0500
From: "David du Colombier" <0intro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down
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> 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.

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David du Colombier