{"id":95,"date":"2004-05-07T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-07T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T10:42:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"A Very Silly Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the author of various bits of <a href=\"software.html\">software<\/a> including the <a href=\"http:\/\/colordiff.sourceforge.net\/\">colordiff<\/a> program, which is used to provide colour-highlighting to &#8216;diff&#8217; output, from &#8216;diff&#8217; directly or from either of the popular revision control applications: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvshome.org\/\">CVS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/subversion.tigris.org\/\">Subversion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally people email me about the program or send me patches to the code to add extra features or fix minor bugs.  But yesterday&#8217;s email has to be the most bizarre.  It asked whether I had considered renaming &#8216;colordiff&#8217; to &#8216;colourdiff&#8217; &#8220;especially since you&#8217;re in the UK aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; &#8230; !  He even included a patch, renaming every mention in the README files and documentation etc.!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you&#8217;re using either the &#8216;testing&#8217; or &#8216;unstable&#8217; distribution of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a>, just do <b>apt-get install colordiff<\/b> to install it &#8230;  Go on, you know you want to.  You can customize the colours \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the author of various bits of software including the colordiff program, which is used to provide colour-highlighting to &#8216;diff&#8217; output, from &#8216;diff&#8217; directly or from either of the popular revision control applications: CVS and Subversion. Occasionally people email me about the program or send me patches to the code to add extra features&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=95\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}