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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:53:14 +0200
From: Erik Abele <erik@codefaktor.de>
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Thom May wrote:
> * Jan Faerber  (aon.964605784@aon.at) wrote :
> 
>>Dear Hirokai!
>>Please answer a general question!
>>Why do you start some of your lines with "-"- and some with a "+"-character?
>>Is this a kind of value like "this is fine" and "this is not so good"?
>
> These are markers from diff, which is a tool used to produce patches.
> the - means remove this line, and the + means add this line.
> Your question to Joshua regarding the @@ -10,12 +10,13 lines in the cvs
> commit emails also comes from this, and is used to indicate where the change
> is in the file and how many lines have been removed and added.
> Cheers,
> -Thom
> 

Jan,

you can find an easy to understand description of the basic Apache 
working model in Ken Coar's Documentation Project Tutorial under

    >> http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATdocs-project.html

Especially the section about patches should help you to find answers:

   >> http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATdocs-project.html#patches

Erik


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