Re: Why does diff not default to the unified format?

[John Cowan]

Shriramana Sharma scripsit:

> If there is a reason unified diff should not be the default, please tell 
> me what it is. Else please make it the default for the next version of 
> diff released.

In two words, backward compatibility with thousands of existing scripts,
and Posix compatibility.

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