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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> The GNU diff sources are hard enough to read that I don't think we want to 
> try to merge the unified diff generation from there.

I was talking with GNU diff maintainer and his impression was
that CVS folks may have done enough libification -- I'll find
time to look at CVS code and see how much damage we are talking
about.