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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 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: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support for --color
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:21:33 -0800
Eric Blake wrote:
> Why do we even have -l/--paginate

4.3BSD had it.  As you mention, -l was a bad idea, but we wanted to be 
compatible with BSD.  I suppose we could deprecate it at some point....




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