Subject: bug#20062: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support for --color

From: Andreas Grünbacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:21:40 +0100

2015-03-15 21:19 GMT+01:00 Giuseppe Scrivano <[email-masked]>:
> I've basically copied this section from coreutils.  What doesn't make
> sense to you?

+@item --color [=@var{when}]
+@cindex color, distinguishing file types with
+Specify whether to use color for distinguishing file types.  @var{when}
[...]

Color is used to distinguish between file types in ls, but not in
diff. Simply reading what you've copied from coreutils would have been
enough to figure that out.

Andreas