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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-04-12 07:44:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-04-12 07:44:35 +0000 |
| commit | 477cd3074a36e5f5f6ea9d986f0772cf3f27cfbe (patch) | |
| tree | 4bc9db85073a306568d7bb1643d4c111c80f32f7 /NEWS | |
| parent | 3f0830fef57d62a48bbfdaa868698038b7b085f7 (diff) | |
| download | diffutils-477cd3074a36e5f5f6ea9d986f0772cf3f27cfbe.tar.gz | |
Add news for 2.8.4, 2.8.6.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 28 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +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. @@ -197,8 +221,8 @@ User-visible changes in version 2.0: -Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Diffutils. |
