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diff --git a/contrib/diff/NEWS b/contrib/diff/NEWS index dcde122..3854f8b 100644 --- a/contrib/diff/NEWS +++ b/contrib/diff/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,102 @@ +Version 2.8.7 contains no user-visible changes. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8.6: + +* New diff3 option --strip-trailing-cr. + +* With -N and -P, inaccessible empty regular files (the kind of files + that 'patch' creates to indicate nonexistent backups) are now + treated as nonexistent when they are in the 'backup' file position. + +* If multiple SKIP values are given to cmp, e.g., `cmp -i 10 -i 20', + cmp now uses the maximal value instead of the last one. + +* diff now omits the ".000000000" on hosts that do not support + fractional time stamps. + +Version 2.8.5 was not publicly released. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8.4: + +* Diff now simply prints "Files A and B differ" instead of "Binary + files A and B differ". The message is output if either A or B + appears to be a binary file, and the old wording was misleading + because it implied that both files are binary, which is not + necessarily the case. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8.3: + +* New locale: en_US. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8.2: + +* New diff and sdiff option: + --tabsize=COLUMNS +* If --ignore-space-change or --ignore-all-space is also specified, + --ignore-blank-lines now considers lines to be empty if they contain + only white space. +* More platforms now handle multibyte characters correctly when + excluding files by name (diff -x and -X). +* New locales: hu, pt_BR. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8.1: + +* Documentation fixes. + +User-visible changes in version 2.8: + +* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) + if the underlying system conforms to POSIX and if the _POSIX2_VERSION + environment variable is set to 200112. Conformance removes support + for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number. Use -C NUM or -U NUM instead. +* cmp now supports trailing operands SKIP1 and SKIP2, like BSD cmp. +* cmp -i or --ignore-initial now accepts SKIP1:SKIP2 option value. +* New cmp option: -n or --bytes. +* cmp's old -c or --print-chars option has been renamed; + use -b or --print-bytes instead. +* cmp now outputs "byte" rather than "char" outside the POSIX locale. +* cmp -l's index column width now adjusts to fit larger (or smaller) files. +* cmp -l -s and cmp -s -l are not allowed. Use cmp -s or cmp -l instead. +* diff uses ISO 8601 style time stamps for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23 + 16:44:36.875702460 -0800") unless in the C or POSIX locale and the + -c style is specified. +* diff's -I and -F options use the regexp syntax of grep, not of Emacs. +* diff now accepts multiple context arguments, and uses their maximum value. +* New diff and sdiff options: + -E --ignore-tab-expansion + --strip-trailing-cr +* New diff options: + --from-file=FILE, --to-file=FILE + --ignore-file-name-case + --no-ignore-file-name-case +* New diff3 and sdiff option: + --diff-program=PROGRAM +* The following diff options are still accepted, but are no longer documented. + They may be withdrawn in future releases. + -h (omit; it has no effect) + -H (use --speed-large-files instead) + -L (use --label instead) + -P (use --unidirectional-new-file instead) + --inhibit-hunk-merge (omit; it has no effect) +* Recursive diffs now sort file names according to the LC_COLLATE locale + category if possible, instead of using native byte comparison. +* Recursive diffs now detect and report directory loops. +* Diff printf specs can now use the "0" and "'" flags. +* The new sdiff interactive command `ed' precedes each version with a header. +* On 64-bit hosts, files larger than 2 GB can be compared. +* Some internationalization support has been added, but multibyte locales + are still not completely supported yet. +* Some diagnostics have been reworded slightly for consistency. + Also, `diff -D FOO' now outputs `/* ! FOO */' instead of `/* not FOO */'. +* The `patch' part of the manual now describes `patch' version 2.5.4. +* Man pages are now distributed and installed. +* There is support for DJGPP; see the 'ms' subdirectory and the files + m4/dos.m4 and */setmode.*. + + User-visible changes in version 2.7: -* New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-Posix hosts) +* New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-POSIX hosts) * diff -b and -w now ignore line incompleteness; -B no longer does this. * cmp -c now uses locale to decide which output characters to quote. * Help and version messages are reorganized. @@ -64,8 +160,8 @@ User-visible changes in version 2.4: * The format spec %0 introduced in version 2.1 has been removed, since it is incompatible with printf specs like %02d. To represent a null char, use %c'\0' instead. -* cmp and diff now conform to Posix.2 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993) - if the underlying system conforms to Posix: +* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.2-1992 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993) + if the underlying system conforms to POSIX: - Some messages' wordings are changed in minor ways. - ``White space'' is now whatever C's `isspace' says it is. - When comparing directories, if `diff' finds a file that is not a regular @@ -124,3 +220,25 @@ User-visible changes in version 2.0: * Add long-named equivalents for other diff3 options. * diff options -F (--show-function-line) and -I (--ignore-matching-lines) can now be given more than once. + + + +Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of GNU Diffutils. + +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +any later version. + +This program is distributed in the hope that they will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to +the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, +Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
