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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Message #95 received at 20062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Grünbacher <agruen <at> gnu.org>
To: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 20062 <20062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff:
 add support for --color
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:21:40 +0100
2015-03-15 21:19 GMT+01:00 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan <at> redhat.com>:
> 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




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