unclear on the concept

"Here's a patch to add X feature!" [attached patch]
"Ummm. Can you resend that as a context diff, i.e. diff -c?"
"Sure! Here you go!" [identical attached patch]

This is one of the downsides of maintaining an open-source project.

unclear on the concept, #2

Someone sent me an invite to Linked In, yet another social/business network. I declined the invite, and on the resulting trip to the front page I saw their search box:

People you know are already LinkedIn
There are 6 million professionals already on LinkedIn. Find the people you know:
[First Name] [LastName]

So out of curiousity, I entered the name of someone I figured would be in such a system, who happens to have an apostrophe in their surname. I got an error message: "Please use letters only to search (no numbers or special characters).". Nice going. I sincerely doubt that many technical people I know are using a site that doesn't know how to do a fuzzy search, or filter "numbers or special characters" out of a search.