I think it would be great to use unified diff format by default (-u option to diff).
tags 594305 +wontfix thanks Hi Marc, Le Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:44:09AM +0200, Marc MAURICE a écrit : Yes, that would indeed have been a more sane default. However, I prefer to keep backwards compatibility. See https://bugs.debian.org/311086 for a hint on how to deal with this. Thanks! Bye, Joost