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 Detailed Description of Unified Format
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    The unified output format starts with a two-line header, which looks
 like this:
 
      --- FROM-FILE FROM-FILE-MODIFICATION-TIME
      +++ TO-FILE TO-FILE-MODIFICATION-TIME
 
 The time stamp looks like `2002-02-21 23:30:39.942229878 -0800' to
 indicate the date, time with fractional seconds, and time zone.
 
    You can change the header's content with the `--label=LABEL' option;
 see  Alternate Names.
 
    Next come one or more hunks of differences; each hunk shows one area
 where the files differ.  Unified format hunks look like this:
 
      @@ FROM-FILE-RANGE TO-FILE-RANGE @@
       LINE-FROM-EITHER-FILE
       LINE-FROM-EITHER-FILE...
 
    The lines common to both files begin with a space character.  The
 lines that actually differ between the two files have one of the
 following indicator characters in the left print column:
 
 `+'
      A line was added here to the first file.
 
 `-'
      A line was removed here from the first file.
 

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