diff regression

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Sat Apr 11 12:51:38 UTC 2009


Xin LI wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> | miwi at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> |> Synopsis: [maintainer-update] www/xpi-modify_headers
> |>
> |> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> |> State-Changed-By: miwi
> |> State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 9 18:19:08 UTC 2009
> |> State-Changed-Why:
> |>
> |> Howdy,
> |>
> |> Patch rejected:
> |> http://64bit.miwibox.org/index.php?action=describe_port&id=2152
> |> http://32bit.miwibox.org/index.php?action=describe_port&id=2042
> |>
> |
> | OK, this really sucks. diff has lost the -P option, that I've been
> | relying on. Compare:
> | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE
> | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE
> |
> | It used to say:
> |        -P     When comparing directories, if a file appears only in
> the second
> |           directory of the two, treat it  as  present  but    empty 
> in  the
> |           other.
> |
> | Now it's gone. Regression?
> 
> What's wrong with -N?

Nothing, I just didn't know about -N.


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