From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!ogcvax!root
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.unix-wizar
Title: "diff" convention
Article-I.D.: ogcvax.116
Posted: Mon Jun 14 09:53:39 1982
Received: Wed Jun 16 02:06:21 1982
When producing a "diff", I suggest that the following convention be
used when specifying filenames:
diff [options]
The diff thus produced can be interpreted as the changes necessary
to get from the initial state () to the final state
(). This seems the more natural, and by using this
convention consistently, one can avoid confusion as to "which direction
the diff goes".
Bruce Jerrick
...teklabs!ogcvax!bruce
Oregon Graduate Center