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8 Jul 2024 19:15:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The right way to patch POV-Ray?  
From: Pabs
Date: 9 Jan 2003 02:42:53
Message: <3E1D276E.F0DA2A3C@nospam.zip.to.thanks>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> No, it makes it only harder to read and more difficult to check what you
> changed.  Having the whole file is much easier as one can then use modern
> GUI based graphical diffs and very easily track what you changed rather than
> having to first make a backup copy, the apply your changes and only after
> that do the graphical diff.  As you can see, using diffs just makes life
> harder for everybody.  And exchanging a few KB more hardly makes a
> difference these days anyway!  So no need to use the ancient diff :-)

That sounds like a feature request


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