GNU bug report logs - #39184
Documentation says "at present"

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Roland Illig <roland.illig <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 39184-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 39184-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39184: Documentation says "at present"
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:54:15 -0800

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Roland Illig <roland.illig <at> gmx.de> wrote:
> the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
> quickly gets wrong and outdated.
>
> https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
>
> GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
> and apply unified diffs.
>
> Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
> year" and similar terms.

Thanks for the report. Fixed via the attached.

[diff-at-present.diff (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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