From 477cd3074a36e5f5f6ea9d986f0772cf3f27cfbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:44:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add news for 2.8.4, 2.8.6. --- NEWS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 686674d..62a49ab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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.