Re: [PATCH] xdiff: Match GNU diff behaviour when deciding hunk comment worthiness of lines

"Horst H. von Brand" [off-list ref] writes:

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

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This removes the '#' and '(' tests and adds a '$' test instead although I
have no idea what it is actually good for - but hey, if that's what GNU
diff does...

$ starts a shell (or Perl) variable...

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Pasky only went and did as Junio sayeth.

Horst adds a guesse...

If I have to guess, I think that is from VMS.