--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Apr 03 13:14:43 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Apr 04 22:15:14 2008 +0200
@@ -3028,7 +3028,7 @@
            _('ignore changes in the amount of white space')),
           ('B', 'ignore-blank-lines', None,
            _('ignore changes whose lines are all blank')),
-          ('U', 'unified', 3,
+          ('U', 'unified', '',
            _('number of lines of context to show'))
          ] + walkopts,
          _('hg diff [OPTION]... [-r REV1 [-r REV2]] [FILE]...')),