Subject: bug#21579: [bug-diffutils] bug#21579: diffutils 3.3 man page may need update

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:12:23 -0700

forcemerge 20123 21579
thanks

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Song Li <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi: the man page of diffutils 3.3 (after installing through brew) does
> not seem to include the description for the nice option
> '--no-dereference', which is valid, and also appears in `diff --help`
> from that package (diffutils 3.3). I assume the OS version does not
> matter, but in case needed, I use mac os x el capitan.

Thank you for the report.
That was indeed a bug. It was fixed by this change:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=2cd4ff3a5ff52d89b6b992d158f389b757f4faf4