Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: New improved formatting of chunk header in diff

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

O.K. This one introduced new feature, and wasn't needed for earlier 
accepted patch (output empty patches) to have sense. And it is rc1 
phase...

I personally do not mind minor gitweb 'feature' updates in -rc
cycle, just like I am planning to see if there are gitk updates
I haven't pulled from Paulus (I think there is at least one
patch from last month or so), unless the changes do not break it
so badly.

By the way, where I can find proper specifiction of unified diff format? 
Do I understand correctly that bot from and to ranges can be without 
number of lines part if it simplifies to 0?

When Linus did apply.c and I did diff.c, we primarily worked off
of sources to GNU patch.

There is a POSIX draft proposal now.

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag-review/msg02077.html

See also updates about the proposal.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/29331/focus=29389