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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