bugs in package diffutils -- GNU bug report logs

#18973 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils-3.3 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization
Reported by: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <yoi_no_myoujou <at> yahoo.co.jp>; Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 10:14:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 253 days ago; Modified 10 years and 253 days ago;
#19835 [n| | ] [diffutils] RFC: diff: skip initial columns before comparing
Reported by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon <at> intel.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 155 days ago; Modified 10 years and 155 days ago;
#20250 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff by size
Reported by: Andreas <wiisses <at> web.de>; Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:56:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 104 days ago; Modified 9 years and 67 days ago;
#20279 [n| | ] [diffutils] With -r, option to avoid duplicate differences due to relative symbolic links
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:47:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 100 days ago; Modified 10 years and 100 days ago;
#20794 [n| | ] [diffutils] ignore subdirectory with diff
Reported by: "杨秉武" <detailyang <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:31:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 34 days ago; Modified 8 years and 194 days ago;
#21034 [n| | ] [diffutils] [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: bug#21023: REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it
Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar <at> Denis-Excoffier.org>; Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:38:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 6 days ago; Modified 10 years and 6 days ago;
#21665 [n| | ] [diffutils] Use of mmap for large files
Reported by: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26 <at> kfk4ever.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 278 days ago; Modified 9 years and 75 days ago;
#21674 [n| | ] [diffutils] Fix for context-header
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem <at> yahoo.no>; Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:05:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 277 days ago; Modified 9 years and 277 days ago;
#22108 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff wrapper script for very large files, low memory
Reported by: Taco van Dijk <taco <at> waag.org>; Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:17:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 221 days ago; Modified 9 years and 75 days ago;
#22535 [n| | ] [diffutils] REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)
Reported by: Aaron Davies <adavies42 <at> me.com>; Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:10:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 164 days ago; Modified 9 years and 164 days ago;
#23226 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils does not compile with C89 compiler
Reported by: Brian Nixon <nixonb <at> yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 21:02:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 101 days ago; Modified 9 years and 101 days ago;
#23596 [n| | ] [diffutils] Add exclude directories feature
Reported by: <daveparrish <at> tutanota.com>; Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 17:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 55 days ago; Modified 9 years and 55 days ago;
#23644 [n| | ] [diffutils] bug with context greater than 0
Reported by: Claude <lamy.claude <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 05:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 48 days ago; Modified 9 years and 45 days ago;
#24234 [n| | ] [diffutils] Recursive diff noise for broken symlinks, fifos and sockets
Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 334 days ago; Modified 8 years and 334 days ago;
#24330 [n| | ] [diffutils] mingw64: diff complains about the argument '-' (stdin), not able to run testsuites generated by automake [side issue: not able to compile diffutils-3.5]
Reported by: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch <at> gnu.org>; Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:19:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 320 days ago; Modified 8 years and 319 days ago;
#24397 [n| | ] [diffutils] Binary files and --label option
Reported by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare <at> suse.de>; Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 15:35:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 309 days ago; Modified 8 years and 309 days ago;
#25121 [n| | ] [diffutils] Bug with diff -y argument
Reported by: Oliver Dixon <oliver.w.dixon <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 22:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 222 days ago; Modified 8 years and 222 days ago;
#25343 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils run with option -B do not ignore blank lines with Windows line ending
Reported by: Jeff THUONG <jfthuong <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 05:20:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 194 days ago; Modified 8 years and 194 days ago;
#25402 [n| |=] [diffutils] Race condition in "colors" test
Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>; Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 22:37:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 34519, 36488; Filed 8 years and 188 days ago; Modified 3 years and 319 days ago;
#25427 [n| | ] [diffutils] strip-trailing-cr makes -q not be quick
Reported by: Tom Vajzovic <t.gnutools <at> purposeful.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 184 days ago; Modified 8 years and 174 days ago;
#25663 [n| | ] [diffutils] verify macro in system.h incorrectly expects 8 byte long for 64-bit builds on Windows/Visual Studio
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 13:17:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 156 days ago; Modified 8 years and 152 days ago;
#25664 [n| | ] [diffutils] util.c of diffutils 3.5 fails to build on Windows
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:01:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 156 days ago; Modified 8 years and 156 days ago;
#25814 [n| | ] [diffutils] Windows same_file macro is not reliable
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:02:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 145 days ago; Modified 8 years and 144 days ago;
#26052 [n| | ] [diffutils] Feature suggestion: Identifying identical files
Reported by: Victor Porton <porton <at> narod.ru>; Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:05:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 127 days ago; Modified 8 years and 127 days ago;
#26572 [n| | ] [diffutils] problem with "diff --color": escape sequences shouldn't span multiple lines
Reported by: <ian_bruce <at> mail.ru>; Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 87 days ago; Modified 8 years and 87 days ago;
#27063 [n| | ] [diffutils] make check FAIL for diffutils-3.6
Reported by: Michael Felt <michael <at> felt.demon.nl>; Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 03:07:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 52 days ago; Modified 8 years and 49 days ago;
#27241 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff command modified my file
Reported by: Hong Jehn <hongjehn <at> icloud.com>; Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 21:34:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 41 days ago; Modified 8 years and 41 days ago;
#28022 [n| | ] [diffutils] GNU diff, autowrap for long lines
Reported by: Wei-Shun Lo <raliclo <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 00:37:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 341 days ago; Modified 7 years and 341 days ago;
#28796 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:53:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 277 days ago; Modified 7 years and 266 days ago;
#28851 [n| | ] [diffutils] [bug-diffutils] - Directories compare doesn't show all differences
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:41:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 273 days ago; Modified 7 years and 273 days ago;
#29139 [n| | ] [diffutils] add --include for recursive searches
Reported by: Kevin Hunter Kesling <hunteke <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 20:16:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 254 days ago; Modified 7 years and 254 days ago;
#29311 [n| | ] [diffutils] Byte comparison from cmp diffutils
Reported by: "s3gmentationfault <at> gmail.com" <s3gmentationfault <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:07:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 242 days ago; Modified 7 years and 242 days ago;
#29510 [n| | ] [diffutils] 3-way merge, diff3 lacking features
Reported by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric <at> viric.name>; Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:55:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 227 days ago; Modified 7 years and 227 days ago;
#30574 [n| | ] [diffutils] Support different charsets
Reported by: Victor Porton <porton <at> narod.ru>; Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 143 days ago; Modified 7 years and 143 days ago;
#30913 [n| | ] [diffutils] Releasing a build compatible with glibc-2.26+
Reported by: The Fireplace <the.f1repl4ce <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:42:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 115 days ago; Modified 7 years and 109 days ago;
#31185 [n| | ] [diffutils] Why is there no full support for Unicode?
Reported by: Keepun <keepun <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:02:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 90 days ago; Modified 7 years and 89 days ago;
#31199 [n| | ] [diffutils] Diff sym link bug
Reported by: Alessandro <mirio <at> miriodev.net>; Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:01:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 89 days ago; Modified 7 years and 88 days ago;
#31370 [n| | ] [diffutils] Can not make Diffutils on Debian
Reported by: ateymuri <ateymuri63 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 08:53:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 72 days ago; Modified 7 years and 70 days ago;
#31577 [n| | ] [diffutils] Using -S / --starting-file causes diff to miss some files
Reported by: Maxim Baz <lists.gnu <at> maximbaz.com>; Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 08:25:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 53 days ago; Modified 7 years and 53 days ago;
#31583 [n| | ] [diffutils] short option for --no-dereference (again)
Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar <at> Denis-Excoffier.org>; Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 20:02:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 52 days ago; Modified 7 years and 52 days ago;
#31830 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutil bug report
Reported by: ZI WANG <zw <at> cs.wisc.edu>; Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:14:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 7 years and 31 days ago; Modified 7 years and 31 days ago;
#32353 [n| | ] [diffutils] Failing test with diffutils 3.6 on SLES12 with gcc7 compiler
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>; Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 08:10:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 347 days ago; Modified 6 years and 347 days ago;
#32400 [n| | ] [diffutils] Context and unified hunk formats not fully documented - no mention of --show-c-function / --show-function-line effect on headers
Reported by: Philippe Cloutier <chealer <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:44:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 341 days ago; Modified 6 years and 341 days ago;
#32505 [n| | ] [diffutils] colorize the changed text a different color?
Reported by: Britton Kerin <britton.kerin <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:34:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 327 days ago; Modified 6 years and 327 days ago;
#32993 [n| | ] [diffutils] Pathologically slow operation
Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>; Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 21:35:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 280 days ago; Modified 6 years and 280 days ago;
#33144 [n| | ] [diffutils] Replace some loops with str functions
Reported by: "Kapus, Timotej" <timotej.kapus13 <at> imperial.ac.uk>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:43:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 264 days ago; Modified 6 years and 263 days ago;
#33176 [n| | ] [diffutils] cmp bug
Reported by: Дмитрий Маренков <marenkovdmitriy <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 15:17:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 261 days ago; Modified 6 years and 261 days ago;
#33427 [n| | ] [diffutils] question or RFE on diff -r handling non-same files: show new/older when they "differ"
Reported by: L A Walsh <gnu <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:35:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 239 days ago; Modified 6 years and 239 days ago;
#33467 [n| | ] [diffutils] "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode
Reported by: Delian Krustev <krustev-diffutils <at> krustev.net>; Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:04:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 235 days ago; Modified 6 years and 227 days ago;
#33813 [n| | ] [diffutils] GNU diffutils 3.6 – 'diff -y' – Several mark types used as separators instead of one – Inappropriate options combinations
Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 207 days ago; Modified 6 years and 207 days ago;
#33947 [n| | ] [diffutils] Failure building diffutils-3.7 (openSUSE:Factory)
Reported by: Sean Lewis <sean <at> suspend.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 17:06:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 195 days ago; Modified 6 years and 195 days ago;
#33965 [n| | ] [diffutils] handling of closed file descriptors
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:43:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 193 days ago; Modified 6 years and 190 days ago;
#33970 [n| | ] [diffutils] Issue dpkg with diff
Reported by: Sergio Sámano <sergio_samano_salazar <at> hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:29:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 193 days ago; Modified 6 years and 193 days ago;
#34259 [n| | ] [diffutils] --*-line-format results are different from the default.
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 166 days ago; Modified 6 years and 166 days ago;
#34376 [n| | ] [diffutils] How to submit a bug fix?
Reported by: Richard Gering <Richard.Gering <at> microfocus.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 01:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 158 days ago; Modified 5 years and 361 days ago;
#34578 [n| | ] [diffutils] Support for different coloration of --- and +++ headers?
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh <at> joshtriplett.org>; Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:49:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 146 days ago; Modified 6 years and 146 days ago;
#34705 [n| | ] [diffutils] Cannot get white space to be ignored
Reported by: Mallika Bachan <mallika.bachan <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 01:01:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 136 days ago; Modified 6 years and 135 days ago;
#35214 [n| | ] [diffutils] [Bug][diff][3.3] diff showing difference when there is none
Reported by: 方然 <ufo2243 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 06:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 97 days ago; Modified 6 years and 95 days ago;
#35451 [n| | ] [diffutils] Typo in the manual
Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:34:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 79 days ago; Modified 6 years and 79 days ago;
#35730 [n| | ] [diffutils] Diffutils manual refers to wrong node of Emacs manual
Reported by: jorge+list <at> disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto); Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:49:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 62 days ago; Modified 6 years and 62 days ago;
#37381 [n| | ] [diffutils] [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default
Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>; Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:31:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 307 days ago; Modified 5 years and 307 days ago;
#38779 [n| | ] [diffutils] Document conflicting options better
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:35:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 199 days ago; Modified 5 years and 199 days ago;
#39688 [n| | ] [diffutils] is a socket
Reported by: Norbert de Jonge <mail <at> norbertdejonge.nl>; Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 146 days ago; Modified 4 years and 220 days ago;
#39868 [n| | ] [diffutils] Fix for diff -ZE behaviour
Reported by: felix <felix.von.s <at> posteo.de>; Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:38:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 134 days ago; Modified 5 years and 134 days ago;
#39910 [n| | ] [diffutils] Add color to "No newline at end of file"
Reported by: Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:20:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 132 days ago; Modified 5 years and 132 days ago;
#40018 [n| | ] [diffutils] How to diff PDF files?
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:17:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 126 days ago; Modified 5 years and 126 days ago;
#40020 [n| | ] [diffutils] package:diffutils; package-version:1:3.7-3; BUG on options: --exclude and --new-file used together
Reported by: "camel bright" <solar020 <at> gmx.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:44:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 126 days ago; Modified 5 years and 126 days ago;
#41777 [n| | ] [diffutils] Feature: colorize diff -q
Reported by: Ed Avis <ed.avis <at> qmaw.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:09:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 35 days ago; Modified 5 years and 35 days ago;
#43923 [n| | ] [diffutils] "only in" message in recursive diff is ambiguous and hence useless if the directories have the same name
Reported by: php fan <php4fan <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 276 days ago; Modified 4 years and 276 days ago;
#44378 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff Manual
Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292 <at> nau.edu>; Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 22:08:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 255 days ago; Modified 4 years and 255 days ago;
#44379 [n| | ] [diffutils] File name affects patch patched file regardless of diff
Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292 <at> nau.edu>; Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 22:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 255 days ago; Modified 4 years and 254 days ago;
#44838 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff 3.7 incorrectly reports added lines and can generate huge diffs
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:35:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 233 days ago; Modified 4 years and 233 days ago;
#45350 [n| | ] [diffutils] Errors in man pages
Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian <at> helgefjell.de>; Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:22:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 206 days ago; Modified 4 years and 206 days ago;
#45439 [n| | ] [diffutils] Mistake in string
Reported by: Daniel Tisi <daniel.tisi <at> outlook.com>; Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 201 days ago; Modified 4 years and 201 days ago;
#46134 [n| | ] [diffutils] Improvement of diff
Reported by: Joaquim Luque <joaquiml <at> graphcore.ai>; Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:18:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 168 days ago; Modified 4 years and 168 days ago;
#46550 [n| | ] [diffutils] bug in diff -r?
Reported by: Stan Schymanski <schymans <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:22:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 149 days ago; Modified 4 years and 148 days ago;
#48047 [n| | ] [diffutils] provide --dereference
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:37:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 79 days ago; Modified 4 years and 79 days ago;
#48081 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff on windows doest work with same path but different drives
Reported by: dreverser <at> gmail.com; Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:23:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 77 days ago; Modified 4 years and 76 days ago;
#48168 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff: mention if any GNU extensions
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 20:34:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 73 days ago; Modified 4 years and 73 days ago;
#48516 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff.c:764: possible wrong operator ?
Reported by: David Binderman <dcb314 <at> hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 10:23:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 57 days ago; Modified 4 years and 57 days ago;
#48791 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff ( -q option )
Reported by: saransh bhatnagar <saransh87 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:46:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 42 days ago; Modified 4 years and 42 days ago;
#49038 [n| | ] [diffutils] Speeding up diff on Windows
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:13:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 29 days ago; Modified 4 years and 29 days ago;
#50165 [n| | ] [diffutils] GNU diff '--recursive' should continue on "input/output error". GNU cmp should have missing '--recursive' option.
Reported by: YruNlsr6371bDg <fhdpo2zdkgrgktctxxumrxd2ayhtdf <at> onionmail.org>; Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:02:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 326 days ago; Modified 3 years and 326 days ago;
#51958 [n| | ] [diffutils] Difference between "diff" and "diff3"
Reported by: <marc <at> marcbernardtools.com>; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 238 days ago; Modified 3 years and 238 days ago;
#52111 [n| | ] [diffutils] coloring bug in diff -y ?
Reported by: linuxprocess <at> free.fr; Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:58:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 231 days ago; Modified 3 years and 231 days ago;
#53449 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils-3.8 configure script depends on cmp
Reported by: Ilari Jääskeläinen <ijaaskelainen <at> outlook.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:30:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 173 days ago; Modified 3 years and 173 days ago;
#54365 [n| | ] [diffutils] the .gitignore file is modified
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:42:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 124 days ago; Modified 3 years and 124 days ago;
#54366 [n| | ] [diffutils] option -L is not documented in the "diff --help" output
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:50:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 124 days ago; Modified 3 years and 124 days ago;
#59387 [n| | ] [diffutils] Request to release new m4/diffutils with updated gnulib
Reported by: Zhang Ning <zhangn1985 <at> outlook.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 237 days ago; Modified 2 years and 237 days ago;
#60855 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>; Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:06:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 180 days ago; Modified 2 years and 179 days ago;
#61377 [n| | ] [diffutils] Too many [-Wsign-compare] warnings
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig <at> simnet.is>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 03:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 156 days ago; Modified 2 years and 156 days ago;
#61378 [n| | ] [diffutils] Makefile: rule to make target 'test-nl_langinfo.c' is missing
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig <at> simnet.is>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 03:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 156 days ago; Modified 2 years and 155 days ago;
#61966 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff -r reports identical devices nodes (maj/min) as different
Reported by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele <at> svario.it>; Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 132 days ago; Modified 2 years and 132 days ago;
#62727 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff dirs without file content
Reported by: dinar qurbanov <qdinar <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 18:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 97 days ago; Modified 2 years and 97 days ago;
#63632 [n| | ] [diffutils] diffutils 3.10: test suite is failing in test-strtoll unit
Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 21:52:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 54 days ago; Modified 2 years and 54 days ago;
#64811 [n| | ] [diffutils] Win-version now broken
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem <at> yahoo.no>; Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:06:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 356 days ago; Modified 1 year and 134 days ago;
#64860 [n| | ] [diffutils] Win-version now broken
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:54:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 354 days ago; Modified 1 year and 354 days ago;
#66095 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff quoting for names with spaces changed after v3.10-171-g69ae797392
Reported by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm <at> altlinux.org>; Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:13:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 299 days ago; Modified 1 year and 298 days ago;
#67541 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff -r reporting two fifos as somehow different
Reported by: kevin dankwardt <kevin.dankwardt <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 227 days ago; Modified 1 year and 227 days ago;
#72723 [n| | ] [diffutils] diff -d can be very slow
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 328 days ago; Modified 328 days ago;
#77507 [n| | ] [diffutils] 12 failures from "make check"
Reported by: Derek Clegg <derek <at> me.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 21:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 101 days ago; Modified 101 days ago;
#77615 [n| | ] [diffutils] difference in diff -wB with and without -u
Reported by: Aaron Davies <aaron.davies <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 18:26:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 97 days ago; Modified 97 days ago;
#77840 [n| | ] [diffutils] Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures
Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:55:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 89 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;
#78019 [n| | ] [diffutils] LTO build fails with diffutils 3.12
Reported by: Christian Hesse <list <at> eworm.de>; Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:58:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 81 days ago; Modified 79 days ago;
#78111 [n| | ] [diffutils] new test failure: test-nstrftime-2.sh
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 77 days ago; Modified 77 days ago;
#78213 [n| | ] [diffutils] should produce a diff with similar lines grouped together if possible
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 14:19:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 72 days ago; Modified 72 days ago;

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