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User-visible changes in version 2.8.1:
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* Documentation fixes.
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User-visible changes in version 2.8:
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* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)
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if the underlying system conforms to POSIX and if the _POSIX2_VERSION
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environment variable is set to 200112. Conformance removes support
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for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number. Use -C NUM or -U NUM instead.
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* cmp now supports trailing operands SKIP1 and SKIP2, like BSD cmp.
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* cmp -i or --ignore-initial now accepts SKIP1:SKIP2 option value.
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* New cmp option: -n or --bytes.
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* cmp's old -c or --print-chars option has been renamed;
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use -b or --print-bytes instead.
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* cmp now outputs "byte" rather than "char" outside the POSIX locale.
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* cmp -l's index column width now adjusts to fit larger (or smaller) files.
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* cmp -l -s and cmp -s -l are not allowed. Use cmp -s or cmp -l instead.
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* diff uses ISO 8601 style time stamps for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23
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16:44:36.875702460 -0800") unless in the C or POSIX locale and the
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-c style is specified.
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* diff's -I and -F options use the regexp syntax of grep, not of Emacs.
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* diff now accepts multiple context arguments, and uses their maximum value.
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* New diff and sdiff options:
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-E --ignore-tab-expansion
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--strip-trailing-cr
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* New diff options:
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--from-file=FILE, --to-file=FILE
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--ignore-file-name-case
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--no-ignore-file-name-case
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* New diff3 and sdiff option:
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--diff-program=PROGRAM
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* The following diff options are still accepted, but are no longer documented.
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They may be withdrawn in future releases.
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-h (omit; it has no effect)
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-H (use --speed-large-files instead)
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-L (use --label instead)
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-P (use --unidirectional-new-file instead)
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--inhibit-hunk-merge (omit; it has no effect)
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* Recursive diffs now sort file names according to the LC_COLLATE locale
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category if possible, instead of using native byte comparison.
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* Diff printf specs can now use the "0" and "'" flags.
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* The new sdiff interactive command `ed' precedes each version with a header.
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* On 64-bit hosts, files larger than 2 GB can be compared.
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* Some internationalization support has been added, but multibyte locales
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are still not completely supported yet.
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* Some diagnostics have been reworded slightly for consistency.
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Also, `diff -D FOO' now outputs `/* ! FOO */' instead of `/* not FOO */'.
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* The `patch' part of the manual now describes `patch' version 2.5.4.
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* Man pages are now distributed and installed.
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* There is support for DJGPP; see the 'ms' subdirectory and the files
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m4/dos.m4 and */setmode.*.
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User-visible changes in version 2.7:
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* New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-POSIX hosts)
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* diff -b and -w now ignore line incompleteness; -B no longer does this.
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* cmp -c now uses locale to decide which output characters to quote.
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* Help and version messages are reorganized.
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User-visible changes in version 2.6:
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* New cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff option: --help
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* A new heuristic for diff greatly reduces the time needed to compare
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large input files that contain many differences.
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* Partly as a result, GNU diff's output is not exactly the same as before.
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Usually it is a bit smaller, but sometimes it is a bit larger.
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User-visible changes in version 2.5:
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* New cmp option: -v --version
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User-visible changes in version 2.4:
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* New cmp option: --ignore-initial=BYTES
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* New diff3 option: -T --initial-tab
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* New diff option: --line-format=FORMAT
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* New diff group format specifications:
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<PRINTF_SPEC>[eflmnEFLMN]
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A printf spec followed by one of the following letters
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causes the integer corresponding to that letter to be
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printed according to the printf specification.
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E.g. `%5df' prints the number of the first line in the
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group in the old file using the "%5d" format.
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e: line number just before the group in old file; equals f - 1
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f: first line number in group in the old file
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l: last line number in group in the old file
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m: line number just after the group in old file; equals l + 1
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n: number of lines in group in the old file; equals l - f + 1
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E, F, L, M, N: likewise, for lines in the new file
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%(A=B?T:E)
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If A equals B then T else E. A and B are each either a decimal
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constant or a single letter interpreted as above. T and E are
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arbitrary format strings. This format spec is equivalent to T if
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A's value equals B's; otherwise it is equivalent to E. For
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example, `%(N=0?no:%dN) line%(N=1?:s)' is equivalent to `no lines'
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if N (the number of lines in the group in the the new file) is 0,
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to `1 line' if N is 1, and to `%dN lines' otherwise.
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%c'C'
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where C is a single character, stands for the character C. C may not
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be a backslash or an apostrophe. E.g. %c':' stands for a colon.
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%c'\O'
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where O is a string of 1, 2, or 3 octal digits, stands for the
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character with octal code O. E.g. %c'\0' stands for a null character.
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* New diff line format specifications:
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<PRINTF_SPEC>n
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The line number, printed with <PRINTF_SPEC>.
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E.g. `%5dn' prints the line number with a "%5d" format.
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%c'C'
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%c'\O'
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The character C, or with octal code O, as above.
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* Supported <PRINTF_SPEC>s have the same meaning as with printf, but must
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match the extended regular expression %-*[0-9]*(\.[0-9]*)?[doxX].
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* The format spec %0 introduced in version 2.1 has been removed, since it
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is incompatible with printf specs like %02d. To represent a null char,
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use %c'\0' instead.
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* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.2-1992 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993)
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if the underlying system conforms to POSIX:
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- Some messages' wordings are changed in minor ways.
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- ``White space'' is now whatever C's `isspace' says it is.
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- When comparing directories, if `diff' finds a file that is not a regular
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file or a directory, it reports the file's type instead of diffing it.
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(As usual, it follows symbolic links first.)
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- When signaled, sdiff exits with the signal's status, not with status 2.
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* Now portable to hosts where int, long, pointer, etc. are not all the same
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size.
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* `cmp - -' now works like `diff - -'.
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User-visible changes in version 2.3:
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* New diff option: --horizon-lines=lines
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User-visible changes in version 2.1:
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* New diff options:
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--{old,new,unchanged}-line-format='format'
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--{old,new,unchanged,changed}-group-format='format'
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-U
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* New diff3 option:
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-A --show-all
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* diff3 -m now defaults to -A, not -E.
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* diff3 now takes up to three -L or --label options, not just two.
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If just two options are given, they refer to the first two input files,
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not the first and third input files.
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* sdiff and diff -y handle incomplete lines.
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User-visible changes in version 2.0:
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* Add sdiff and cmp programs.
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* Add Texinfo documentation.
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* Add configure script.
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* Improve diff performance.
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* New diff options:
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-x --exclude
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-X --exclude-from
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-P --unidirectional-new-file
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-W --width
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-y --side-by-side
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--left-column
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--sdiff-merge-assist
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--suppress-common-lines
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* diff options renamed:
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--label renamed from --file-label
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--forward-ed renamed from --reversed-ed
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--paginate renamed from --print
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--entire-new-file renamed from --entire-new-files
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--new-file renamed from --new-files
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--all-text removed
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* New diff3 options:
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-v --version
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* Add long-named equivalents for other diff3 options.
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* diff options -F (--show-function-line) and -I (--ignore-matching-lines)
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can now be given more than once.
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Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation,
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Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Diffutils.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that they will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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