Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:22:51 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff regression Message-ID: <790a9fff0904110522r23e8b868l753fc59fb0838402@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E083AD.5030608@bsdforen.de> References: <200904091819.n39IJjDb027358@freefall.freebsd.org> <49E083AD.5030608@bsdforen.de>
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > OK, this really sucks. diff has lost the -P option, that I've been > relying on. Compare: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE > > It used to say: > -P When comparing directories, if a file appears only in the second > directory of the two, treat it as present but empty in the > other. > > Now it's gone. Regression? > >> It looks like the -P option was removed from diff between FreeBSD 6.2-Release and FreeBSD 6.3-Release (diffutils 2.8.7). You can use --unidirectional-new-file instead. Scot
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