GNU bug report logs - #21023
REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 21023-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <rodrivg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21023-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: --no-dereference
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:54:44 -0700

tags 21023 notabug
thanks

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
<rodrivg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> --no-dereference appears in 'diff --help' and 'info diffutils', but
> not in 'man diff'.

Thanks for the report, but that is unlikely to be a problem with this
upstream diffutils package, since the man page (diff.1) is
automatically generated from the output of diff --help, and the build
machinery to do that has been in place for over a decade. I would
suspect whatever installed your diff man pages or the configuration of
your "man(1)" program -- maybe it is searching in the wrong place.

I'm closing the auto-generated ticket in our bug-tracking system, but
please reply here (we'll still see it) if you think there is something
we can improve on this front.
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 262 days ago.

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