This pacifies this notice from ./bootstrap: “Notice from module
fdl: Don't use this module! Instead, copy the referenced license
file into your version control repository.”
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove fdl.
* doc/fdl.texi: New file, taken from Gnulib.
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
* tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
* bootstrap: Likewise.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Unified Format): Correct the now
seriously outdated "At present" (referring to early 1990s)
statement to be more of a historical note.
Reported by Roland Illig in http://bugs.gnu.org/39184.
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
* tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
* bootstrap: Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add stdopen.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Comparing Directories):
Do not document behavior if stdin is closed.
* src/diff.c: Include stdopen.h.
(main): Call stdopen early.
(compare_files) [__hpux]: Remove recently-introduced
special case for HP-UX exec with stdin closed.
* tests/new-file: Remove tests of the removed feature.
* doc/diffutils.texi: Remove all uses of @acronym{...},
per recommendation by Karl Berry.
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove exemption, enabling
the @acronym{-prohibiting syntax-check rule.
This improves on yesterday's change, following up on a
remark by Jim Meyering (Bug#22816#21).
* doc/diffutils.texi (Invoking cmp, cmp Options): Follow POSIX more
closely in the documentation of the information appended to the EOF
diagnostic.
* src/cmp.c (cmp): Be more specific about the shorter file's length
and fix some off-by-1 issues in reporting line counts.
* tests/cmp: Adjust to match new behavior.
Don't assume internal details about stdio buffering.
This avoids a new syntax-check failure.
* ChangeLog-2008: Perform that change.
* doc/diffutils.texi: Likewise.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* cfg.mk: Update the old news hash accordingly.
* NEWS, doc/diffutils.texi (Overview): Document this.
* src/analyze.c (diff_2_files): Restore too_expensive heuristic,
but this time with a floor that is 16 times the old floor. This
should fix Bug#16848, by generating good-quality output for its
test case, while not introducing Bug#24715, by running nearly as
fast as diff-3.3 for that test case.
* bootstrap (gnulib_modules): Add 'argmatch'.
* doc/diffutils.texi: Add documentation for --palette
* src/diff.h (set_color_palette): New prototype.
* src/diff.c (set_color_palette): New function.
(color_palette): New variable.
* src/utils.c: Include "argmatch.h".
(struct bin_str): New struct.
(struct color_ext_type): New struct.
(color_indicator): New array.
(indicator_name): New array.
(indicator_no): New enum.
(parse_state): New enum.
(put_indicator): New function.
(get_funky_string): New function. Copied from coreutils ls.
(parse_diff_color): New function. Copied from coreutils ls
"parse_ls_color" function.
(set_color_context): Use put_indicator instead of directly
outputting the sequence.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add 'lib/argmatch.c'
* doc/diffutils.texi (diff Options): Add documentation for --color.
Copied from coreutils ls --color.
* src/context.c (pr_unidiff_hunk): Set the color context.
(print_context_header): Likewise.
(pr_context_hunk): Likewise.
* src/diff.h (enum colors_style): New enum to record when to use colors.
(colors_style): New variable to memorize the argument value.
(set_color_context): Add function definition.
* src/diff.c: : Define COLOR_OPTION.
(specify_colors_style): New function.
(longopts): Add --color.
(main): Handle --color argument.
(option_help_msgid): Add usage string for --color.
* src/normal.c (print_normal_hunk): Set the color context.
* src/side.c (print_1sdiff_line): Likewise.
* src/util.c (print_1_line_nl): New function.
(print_1_line): Make it a wrapper of 'print_1_line_nl'.
(colors_enabled): New boolean variable.
(begin_output): Call check_color_output once the output file is
configured.
(output_1_line): Periodically call `process_signals'.
(caught_signals): New sigset_t.
(colors_enabled): New boolean variable.
(interrupt_signal): New sig_atomic_t.
(stop_signal_count): New sig_atomic_t.
(check_color_output): New function.
(install_signal_handlers): Likewise. Copied from coreutils ls.
(process_signals): Likewise. Copied from coreutils ls.
(set_color_context): New function.
(sighandler): Likewise. Copied from coreutils ls.
(stophandler): Likewise. Copied from coreutils ls.
See Bug#17075.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Comparison): Say that files need not be read.
(Invoking diff): Remove confusing remark about 'diff - -'.
It's not that useful, and it's not portable anyway.
Problem reported by Vincent Lefevre in <http://bugs.gnu.org/16848>.
The simplest solution is to remove the TOO_EXPENSIVE heuristic
that I added to GNU diff in 1993. Although appropriate for
circa-1993 hardware, these days the heuristic seems to be more
trouble than it's worth.
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Overview): Modernize citations.
Remove mention of TOO_EXPENSIVE heuristic.
* src/analyze.c (diff_2_files): Adjust to TOO_EXPENSIVE-related
API changes in gnulib's diffseq module.
Problem reported by Vincent Lefevre in <http://bugs.gnu.org/16608>.
* NEWS:
* doc/diffutils.texi (Binary, Invoking diff): Document this.
* src/analyze.c (briefly_report): Return void, not int.
All uses changed. Do not futz with exit status. Simplify.
* tests/binary: Adjust to match new behavior.
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Comparing Directories): Likewise.
Also, document that these options work at the top level.
* src/diff.c (compare_files): Treat EBADF like ENOENT, to handle
the case where "-" is closed. Allow the other file to be
STDIN_FILENO, in case it's "-".
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add new-file.
* tests/new-file: New file.
Derived from Tim Waugh's patch in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-diffutils/2011-08/msg00034.html
* NEWS, doc/diffutils.texi (diff Options): Document this.
* src/diff.c (compare_files): Implement this, by using
find_dir_file_pathname.
* src/diff.h (find_dir_file_pathname): New decl.
* src/dir.c: Include filenamecat.h.
(find_dir_file_pathname): New function.
This makes the .texi basename the same as the package name,
which is consistent with most other GNU packages.
* doc/diffutils.texi: Rename from...
* doc/diff.texi: ...removed.
* doc/Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect name change.
(diffutils_TEXINFOS): Likewise.
* cfg.mk (gendocs_options_): Remove this customization. It is no
longer needed, now that the .texi name matches that of the package.
* man/Makefile.am ($(dist_man1_MANS)): Remove now-unnecessary sed
filter.
* README: Update references to diffutils.texi etc. here, too.
* .gitignore: Update here, too.
Suggested by Karl Berry.
Convert using this command:
perl -pi -e \
's/(\@option{-.}) or (\@option{--.*?}) option/$2 ($1) option/' \
doc/diff.texi
Then convert some more with this:
perl -pi -e \
's/the (\@option{-.}) or (\@option{--.*?})$/the $2 ($1)/' \
doc/diff.texi
Then convert more manually.
Suggested by Dan Jacobson