GNU bug report logs - #21005
diff -r: option to sort the files in timestamp order to generate patches

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 23:16:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: diff -r: option to sort the files in timestamp order to generate
 patches
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 01:15:25 +0200

For recursive diff, it would be useful to have an option to sort
the files in timestamp order to generate patches. I suspect that
users who apply patches do not always use the -Z patch option to
avoid time-dependency problems with "make". It seems that sorting
the files by time in a patch file would make the -Z option useless,
as I suggested here:

  https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/mpfr/2015-07/msg00006.html

Alternatively, this could be done by a separate utility (if this is
easier to implement, and to "correct" existing patches).

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Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:20:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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