Re: Easier to read diff -u output

[Bruce Korb]

> However, project maintainers that have to carefully examine patches that
> people send them probably won't like this because they will have to scan
> these complicated lines very carefully to determine whether the line has
> changed or not.  If we only absorb very simple lines, it's immediately
> obvious.

Patching source is not the only use of "diff -u".  The primary use of your
enhancement is for human readability.  In fact, it removes any continued
interest (for me) for using the ``-c'' option.  Besides, it is trivial to derive
the minimal diff:

 cp target target-old
 patch < readable-diff
 diff -u --minimalist target-old target

Thank you again!  Regards, Bruce