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8 Jul 2024 18:48:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The right way to patch POV-Ray?  
From: George Pantazopoulos
Date: 24 Dec 2002 13:37:01
Message: <3e08a94d$1@news.povray.org>
Thanks Thorsten, I was not looking forward to using diff.. sort of dreading
actually :)

George



"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3e08a0f0$1@news.povray.org...
> In article <3e089108$1@news.povray.org> , "George Pantazopoulos"
> <the### [at] attbicom*KILLSPAM*> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your help :) Youre right, I think I could get by without
> > diff, but it seems like a more professional thing to do.
>
> 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 :-)
>
>     Thorsten
>
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