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Is diff the best of them all though, because of the implication?
by arcturus17 4y ago
Is diff the best of them all though, because of the implication?
- jeffbee 4y agoDiff seems the best because the others describe internal details of the source code management implementation. Pull request, merge request, and changelist especially.
- relueeuler 4y agoThey are all diffs. Simple is better here.
- anamexis 4y agoAll pull/change/merge requests are diffs, but not all diffs are pull/change/merge requests.
- relueeuler 4y agoRight, but in the context of making code changes, you can use diff. Which aligns with the Unix tool diff, and application of said diff with patch. So diff and patch are the operations that happen as you mutate a code base.
- rubyist5eva 4y agoMac: What implication? Dennis: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she doesn't review my code in a timely manner. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her, but she’s thinking that they will.
- im3w1l 4y agoThe others have one thing in common: they describe the difference between what is and what should be. Whereas diff is commonly used for the difference between any two things. You could make a diff (as in using the diff program) between two feature branches with no intention of merging one into the other. To me it makes sense to have separate names for these two concepts.