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1 Version 2.8.7 contains no user-visible changes.
3 User-visible changes in version 2.8.6:
5 * New diff3 option --strip-trailing-cr.
7 * With -N and -P, inaccessible empty regular files (the kind of files
11 * If multiple SKIP values are given to cmp, e.g., `cmp -i 10 -i 20',
19 User-visible changes in version 2.8.4:
27 User-visible changes in version 2.8.3:
31 User-visible changes in version 2.8.2:
34 --tabsize=COLUMNS
35 * If --ignore-space-change or --ignore-all-space is also specified,
36 --ignore-blank-lines now considers lines to be empty if they contain
39 excluding files by name (diff -x and -X).
42 User-visible changes in version 2.8.1:
46 User-visible changes in version 2.8:
48 * cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)
51 for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number. Use -C NUM or -U NUM instead.
53 * cmp -i or --ignore-initial now accepts SKIP1:SKIP2 option value.
54 * New cmp option: -n or --bytes.
55 * cmp's old -c or --print-chars option has been renamed;
56 use -b or --print-bytes instead.
58 * cmp -l's index column width now adjusts to fit larger (or smaller) files.
59 * cmp -l -s and cmp -s -l are not allowed. Use cmp -s or cmp -l instead.
60 * diff uses ISO 8601 style time stamps for output times (e.g. "2001-11-23
61 16:44:36.875702460 -0800") unless in the C or POSIX locale and the
62 -c style is specified.
63 * diff's -I and -F options use the regexp syntax of grep, not of Emacs.
66 -E --ignore-tab-expansion
67 --strip-trailing-cr
69 --from-file=FILE, --to-file=FILE
70 --ignore-file-name-case
71 --no-ignore-file-name-case
73 --diff-program=PROGRAM
76 -h (omit; it has no effect)
77 -H (use --speed-large-files instead)
78 -L (use --label instead)
79 -P (use --unidirectional-new-file instead)
80 --inhibit-hunk-merge (omit; it has no effect)
86 * On 64-bit hosts, files larger than 2 GB can be compared.
90 Also, `diff -D FOO' now outputs `/* ! FOO */' instead of `/* not FOO */'.
97 User-visible changes in version 2.7:
99 * New diff option: --binary (useful only on non-POSIX hosts)
100 * diff -b and -w now ignore line incompleteness; -B no longer does this.
101 * cmp -c now uses locale to decide which output characters to quote.
105 User-visible changes in version 2.6:
107 * New cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff option: --help
114 User-visible changes in version 2.5:
116 * New cmp option: -v --version
119 User-visible changes in version 2.4:
121 * New cmp option: --ignore-initial=BYTES
122 * New diff3 option: -T --initial-tab
123 * New diff option: --line-format=FORMAT
131 e: line number just before the group in old file; equals f - 1
135 n: number of lines in group in the old file; equals l - f + 1
159 match the extended regular expression %-*[0-9]*(\.[0-9]*)?[doxX].
163 * cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.2-1992 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993)
165 - Some messages' wordings are changed in minor ways.
166 - ``White space'' is now whatever C's `isspace' says it is.
167 - When comparing directories, if `diff' finds a file that is not a regular
170 - When signaled, sdiff exits with the signal's status, not with status 2.
173 * `cmp - -' now works like `diff - -'.
176 User-visible changes in version 2.3:
178 * New diff option: --horizon-lines=lines
181 User-visible changes in version 2.1:
184 --{old,new,unchanged}-line-format='format'
185 --{old,new,unchanged,changed}-group-format='format'
186 -U
188 -A --show-all
189 * diff3 -m now defaults to -A, not -E.
190 * diff3 now takes up to three -L or --label options, not just two.
193 * sdiff and diff -y handle incomplete lines.
196 User-visible changes in version 2.0:
203 -x --exclude
204 -X --exclude-from
205 -P --unidirectional-new-file
206 -W --width
207 -y --side-by-side
208 --left-column
209 --sdiff-merge-assist
210 --suppress-common-lines
212 --label renamed from --file-label
213 --forward-ed renamed from --reversed-ed
214 --paginate renamed from --print
215 --entire-new-file renamed from --entire-new-files
216 --new-file renamed from --new-files
217 --all-text removed
219 -v --version
220 * Add long-named equivalents for other diff3 options.
221 * diff options -F (--show-function-line) and -I (--ignore-matching-lines)
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