From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:34:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tweak comment
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~294
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19a165cc9c0606c051b12498b7a56303c688212e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tweak comment
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diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c
index 9f50d7f4e1..3639d93155 100644
--- a/src/uniq.c
+++ b/src/uniq.c
@@ -238,10 +238,12 @@ check_file (const char *infile, const char *outfile)
   initbuffer (thisline);
   initbuffer (prevline);
 
-  /* This duplication is to distinguish the common case (in which none of the
-     following options has been specified: --count, -repeated, --all-repeated,
-     --unique) from the others.  In the common case, we can output each new
-     line right away, without waiting to see if the next one is different).  */
+  /* The duplication in the following `if' and `else' blocks is an
+     optimization to distinguish the common case (in which none of
+     the following options has been specified: --count, -repeated,
+     --all-repeated, --unique) from the others.  In the common case,
+     this optimization lets uniq output each different line right away,
+     without waiting to see if the next one is different.  */
 
   if (mode == output_all && countmode == count_none)
     {