GNU bug report logs - #20062
[PATCH] diff: add support for --color

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan <at> redhat.com>

Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 21:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano <at> gnu.org>, 20062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20062: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support for --color
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:26:07 -0700

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On 11/02/2015 02:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I too prefer --palette='...'
> That does have the tiny downside that diff's rarely used
> --paginate option will no longer be able to be abbreviated
> as "--pa", but that is barely worth mentioning.

Why do we even have -l/--paginate instead of telling people to run 'diff
| pr'?  Is it worth deprecating that option?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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