27 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Eggert
0c3f74704f (Special Files): Document behavior of symlink loops. 2002-06-17 05:55:42 +00:00
Paul Eggert
6cce27301e Reword "@option{-f} and @option{--foo}" to "@option{-f} or @option{--foo}".
Use @acronym instead of @sc where appropriate.
(Specified Lines): Renamed from Specified Folding.
(Comparison, Blank Lines):
Clarify wordings for Blank Lines and Specified Lines nodes.
(Binary): Mention --verbose and --print-bytes.
(Tabs, sdiff Option Summary, diff Options):
New option --tabsize=COLUMNS.
2002-06-11 05:53:54 +00:00
Paul Eggert
e21807a095 Use new @copying directive. Work around incompatibility with Debian
install-info.
Put @contents first, not last, since Texinfo now suggests this.
Fix bug in -w documentation noted by Karl Berry.
Mention links for speedup.
New node "Speedups" for future speedups.
Just say "Index", not "Concept Index".
2002-04-05 20:37:31 +00:00
Paul Eggert
79a1780c88 Upgrade the description of `patch' to GNU patch 2.5.4, and revamp
the documentation accordingly.
2002-03-24 07:50:25 +00:00
Paul Eggert
3115963776 Bring back --horizon-lines. 2002-03-12 07:17:13 +00:00
Paul Eggert
8fe985d988 (Overview): byte != character.
(Detailed Context, Detailed Unified, Alternate Names, diff Options): Do not document diff -L.
(Comparing Directories): Do not document diff -P.
(Making Patches, diff Options): Likewise.
(diff Performance, sdiff Option Summary, diff Options, sdiff Options): Do not document diff -H.
(diff Performance, diff Options): Do not document --horizon-lines.
(cmp Options): Prefer -b to -c.
(cmp Options, diff Options, diff3 Options, sdiff Options): Put short
options next to the similar long options.
Document --help, and use the same wording for --verbose on all commands.
(diff3 Options): Fix typo in description of -E, which used wrongly used
"-e" instead of "-E".
(patch Options): Put short options next to the similar long options.
2002-03-12 06:34:28 +00:00
Paul Eggert
dbea9821b7 (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove. 2002-03-11 08:00:47 +00:00
Paul Eggert
3561657de9 Add vr index.
Update copyright to 2002.
(Standards conformance): New chapter.
(Binary): Differing binary files are trouble unless the user asked for
brief output.
(Detailed Context): Prefer new time stamp format in discussion.
(Less Context): Likewise.  (Also use short option).
(Detailed Unified): Likewise.
(Alternate Names): Separate option from arg.
(Pagination): Prefer new time stamp format in discussion.
(Making Patches): Mention -U 2.
(diff Options): Deprecate -LINES, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 does not allow it.
2002-02-28 04:28:07 +00:00
Paul Eggert
aa71c5d0fd (diff Options): Remove DIFF_OPTIONS.
(Invoking diff3, Invoking sdiff): Remove DIFF_PROGRAM.
(diff3 Options, sdiff Options): Add --diff-program.
2001-12-24 00:53:12 +00:00
Paul Eggert
2eb762252f (cmp Options): In byte counts, a plain suffix (without any integer)
is assumed to modify the integer 1.  Index terms like "kibibyte".
Document plain "k".

(Reporting Bugs): Mention bug-report archive and test version
location.  Ask for "diff --version" in bug reports.
2001-12-24 00:06:54 +00:00
Paul Eggert
b272bbb9bb Add --no-ignore-file-name-case.
File name case sensitivity now affects file name exclusion.
Fix typos.
2001-12-11 09:19:39 +00:00
Paul Eggert
0b98d9a71f (direntry, Overview, Comparison, Binary, Invoking cmp): Use "byte"
rather than "character" when talking about cmp, since it compares
bytes, not character.
(Invoking cmp): New trailing operands FROM-SKIP and TO-SKIP.
-i or --ignore-initial now accepts FROM-SKIP:TO-SKIP.
New option -n or --bytes.
Count operands now may be in octal or hex, and may be followed by a
size multiplier.
2001-12-03 13:44:47 +00:00
Paul Eggert
f1d11746ca offsets -> indices for cmp 2001-11-25 06:31:33 +00:00
Paul Eggert
bcb8f7f352 Change direcategory from Utilities to GNU Packages.
Add individual utilities.
Switch to Free Documentation License.
@code -> @command
@samp -> @option
GNU -> @sc{gnu}
GNU patch version is 2.5.4.
Expand tabs to spaces, except when in an example that actually uses tabs.
Prefer @node with just one arg.
Document -E or --ignore-tab-expansion, --strip-trailing-cr, --ignore-file-name-case.
Regular expressions are now grep style, not Emacs style.
cmp's -c or --print-chars option is now -b or --print-bytes.
Time stamps now depend on LC_TIME.
-p now implies ^[[:alpha:]$_].
Flags now include ' and 0.
cmp -i is an alias for --ignore-initial
Document --from-file, --to-file.
Document DIFF_OPTIONS.
2001-11-25 05:54:30 +00:00
Paul Eggert
e48d1026c5 Initial revision 2001-11-23 08:05:29 +00:00
Paul Eggert
4ecee655a2 Add dircategory. 1998-09-15 22:34:53 +00:00
Paul Eggert
f1c356747f Document recent changes.
The patch doc still corresponds to patch 2.2, unfortunately.
Update GNU bug reporting address.  Omit Larry Wall's address;
it's obsolete and he's busy with perl.
1998-09-14 06:13:10 +00:00
Paul Eggert
227301f86a Document recent changes.
patch is still only patch 2.2, unfortuantely.
1998-09-13 05:33:07 +00:00
Paul Eggert
204c39de35 Use version.texi.
-D FOO now outputs `/* ! FOO */ instead of `/* not FOO */'.
1994-11-14 05:10:56 +00:00
Paul Eggert
dbc2dc8d0c Update version number, remove `only' typo. 1994-10-31 07:27:27 +00:00
Paul Eggert
2113dba0f3 entered into RCS 1994-09-12 15:52:22 +00:00
Paul Eggert
6d47c45cbf *** empty log message *** 1994-09-08 07:23:11 +00:00
Paul Eggert
883e61c62b *** empty log message *** 1994-09-01 17:01:31 +00:00
Paul Eggert
91df35595e *** empty log message *** 1994-04-15 00:50:09 +00:00
Paul Eggert
d80108a9e2 *** empty log message *** 1993-12-03 21:07:09 +00:00
Paul Eggert
be52c66d5e Initial revision 1993-11-10 08:28:27 +00:00
Paul Eggert
f9d66e6012 Initial revision 1988-07-26 15:24:24 +00:00