Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 21:11:49 +1200 From: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: diff(1) -N behaviour - Bug 233402 Message-ID: <B380BAF4-2343-4A22-A26D-13437ECC00C2@yahoo.com> References: <B380BAF4-2343-4A22-A26D-13437ECC00C2.ref@yahoo.com>
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Hiya
Apparently, after we switched from GNU diff to BSD diff, the -N flag no =
longer assumes absent files as empty.
There is a bug report about GNU diff compatibility but when I look at =
diff(1) man page, I see that not treating absent files as empty is =
intentional rather than a missing functionality.
If this is not the case, I can work on patch to match to GNU diff =
behaviour, otherwise, this bug report can be closed I think.
What=E2=80=99s your take on this?
-N --new-file
If a file is found in only one directory, act as if it was found
in the other directory too but was of zero size.
man for GNU diff
-N, --new-file
treat absent files as empty
Fehmi=
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