Subject: bug#16228: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16228: Error in 'diff3' man page)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:44:02 +0000

Your bug report

#16228: Error in 'diff3' man page

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16228: Error in 'diff3' man page
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Jamie Landeg Jones <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:43:14 -0800
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tags 16228 notabug
close 16228
thanks

As I mentioned on bug-gnu-utils, this appears not to be a problem
when using a recent upstream release.

Subject: Error in 'diff3' man page
From: Jamie Landeg Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:41:45 +0000
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-- (This was originally posted to bug-gnu-utils as described here:
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-- https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Bugs.html
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Most obsessive/pedantic/picky PR of the year goes to me, with:

The man page for diff3(1) refers to 'info diff' instead of
'info diff3'

>> How-To-Repeat:

% man diff3

Compare the similarity of the end of this page with the end of the
'man diff' page.

Both refer to 'info diff' for more information, but if you compare
the results of 'info diff' and 'info diff3' you'll clearly see that
the man page for diff3 should be referencing 'info diff3'.

Cheers, Jamie