GNU bug report logs - #16408
Bug#734840: diff -R (aka diff --reverse)? (fwd)

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Subject: Bug#734840: diff -R (aka diff --reverse)? (fwd)
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Hello.

I received this report from the Debian bug system. Thanks.

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From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@HIDDEN>
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:28:47 +0100
Subject: Bug#734840: diff -R (aka diff --reverse)?

Package: diffutils
Version: 1:3.3-1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to have an option "diff --reverse"
to swap left and right side, similar to the patch
utility. Esp. when using command line editing it could
help to reuse a previous command line arguments without
swapping the objects manually.

Seems that both --reverse and -R are not defined for
other functions yet.


Regards
Harri