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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2013-03-30 12:50:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2013-03-30 14:04:56 -0700 |
| commit | 417363e4ce3e0195b539a4170ff0cda91400dbc8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c216564c486415a24bf2953359e0ecf01eedd09 /NEWS | |
| parent | 283d1b9528e193ac25018b542665ac5c0e53811f (diff) | |
| download | diffutils-417363e4ce3e0195b539a4170ff0cda91400dbc8.tar.gz | |
doc: mention new option, --no-dereference in 3.3's NEWS
* NEWS (New feeatures): Update 3.3's news to mention --no-dereference.
Reported by Denis Excoffier.
* Makefile.am (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since this modifies old, and
normally-immutable NEWS.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features + diff accepts a new option, --no-dereference. With this option, symbolic + links are treated specially: as a separate type of file that can compare + equal only to another symbolic link with the same value. For example, + with --no-dereference, two symbolic links compare equal when they have + the same value, even when that value does not reference a readable file. + --new-file (-N) and --unidirectional-new-file now allow comparisons to "-". A standard input that's closed acts like a nonexistent file. |