On 02/23/2013 01:15 PM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>>
>> First off, it's not in context diff format, which is the PG standard for
>> patch submission.
>
>
> Since moving to GIT, this expectation is obsolete. All PG hackers
> became comfortable with the unified diff format, see references
> from the list. A lot of hackers post "git diff" patches which cannot
> produce context diff, either.
I am not aware that project policy has changed in the slightest in this
regard.
Every unified diff can be turned into a context diff by passing it
though "filterdiff --format=context".
cheers
andrew