GNU bug reports: package diffutils
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- #16467: Diffutils 3.3 v. VMS (et al.)
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "Steven M. Schweda" <sms@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 4190 days old.
- #18641: [PATCH] diff: Add --only=REGEX option to parse only files that match REGEX
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Daniel Hilst Selli <danielhilst@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch; 3928 days old.
- #18973: diffutils-3.3 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <yoi_no_myoujou@HIDDEN>; 3896 days old.
- #19508: [PATCH] diff: compare major, minor numbers of block/character special files
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch; 3837 days old.
- #19835: RFC: diff: skip initial columns before comparing
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@HIDDEN>; 3799 days old.
- #20250: diff by size
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN>; 3748 days old.
- #20279: With -r, option to avoid duplicate differences due to relative symbolic links
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 3743 days old.
- #20794: ignore subdirectory with diff
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "杨秉武" <detailyang@HIDDEN>; 3678 days old.
- #21034: [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: bug#21023: REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar@HIDDEN>; 3650 days old.
- #21665: Use of mmap for large files
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@HIDDEN>; 3557 days old.
- #21674: Fix for context-header
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 3556 days old.
- #22108: diff wrapper script for very large files, low memory
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Taco van Dijk <taco@HIDDEN>; 3500 days old.
- #22535: REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Aaron Davies <adavies42@HIDDEN>; 3443 days old.
- #23226: diffutils does not compile with C89 compiler
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Brian Nixon <nixonb@HIDDEN>; 3380 days old.
- #23596: Add exclude directories feature
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: <daveparrish@HIDDEN>; 3334 days old.
- #23644: bug with context greater than 0
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Claude <lamy.claude@HIDDEN>; 3326 days old.
- #24234: Recursive diff noise for broken symlinks, fifos and sockets
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 3248 days old.
- #24330: mingw64: diff complains about the argument '-' (stdin), not able to run testsuites generated by automake [side issue: not able to compile diffutils-3.5]
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@HIDDEN>; 3234 days old.
- #24397: Binary files and --label option
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@HIDDEN>; 3223 days old.
- #25121: Bug with diff -y argument
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Oliver Dixon <oliver.w.dixon@HIDDEN>; 3136 days old.
- #25343: diffutils run with option -B do not ignore blank lines with Windows line ending
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Jeff THUONG <jfthuong@HIDDEN>; 3107 days old.
- #25402: Race condition in "colors" test
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>;
merged with #34519,
#36488; 3102 days old.
- #25427: strip-trailing-cr makes -q not be quick
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Tom Vajzovic <t.gnutools@HIDDEN>; 3098 days old.
- #25663: verify macro in system.h incorrectly expects 8 byte long for 64-bit builds on Windows/Visual Studio
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3070 days old.
- #25664: util.c of diffutils 3.5 fails to build on Windows
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3070 days old.
- #25814: Windows same_file macro is not reliable
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3059 days old.
- #26052: Feature suggestion: Identifying identical files
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 3041 days old.
- #26572: problem with "diff --color": escape sequences shouldn't span multiple lines
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: <ian_bruce@HIDDEN>; 3001 days old.
- #27063: make check FAIL for diffutils-3.6
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Michael Felt <michael@HIDDEN>; 2965 days old.
- #27241: diff command modified my file
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Hong Jehn <hongjehn@HIDDEN>; 2955 days old.
- #28022: GNU diff, autowrap for long lines
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Wei-Shun Lo <raliclo@HIDDEN>; 2890 days old.
- #28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 2825 days old.
- #28851: [bug-diffutils] - Directories compare doesn't show all differences
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 2822 days old.
- #29139: add --include for recursive searches
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kevin Hunter Kesling <hunteke@HIDDEN>; 2803 days old.
- #29311: Byte comparison from cmp diffutils
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN" <s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN>; 2791 days old.
- #29510: 3-way merge, diff3 lacking features
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@HIDDEN>; 2776 days old.
- #30574: Support different charsets
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 2692 days old.
- #30913: Releasing a build compatible with glibc-2.26+
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: The Fireplace <the.f1repl4ce@HIDDEN>; 2664 days old.
- #31185: Why is there no full support for Unicode?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Keepun <keepun@HIDDEN>; 2639 days old.
- #31199: Diff sym link bug
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Alessandro <mirio@HIDDEN>; 2638 days old.
- #31370: Can not make Diffutils on Debian
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: ateymuri <ateymuri63@HIDDEN>; 2620 days old.
- #31577: Using -S / --starting-file causes diff to miss some files
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Maxim Baz <lists.gnu@HIDDEN>; 2601 days old.
- #31583: short option for --no-dereference (again)
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar@HIDDEN>; 2601 days old.
- #31830: diffutil bug report
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: ZI WANG <zw@HIDDEN>; 2580 days old.
- #32353: Failing test with diffutils 3.6 on SLES12 with gcc7 compiler
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 2530 days old.
- #32400: Context and unified hunk formats not fully documented - no mention of --show-c-function / --show-function-line effect on headers
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Philippe Cloutier <chealer@HIDDEN>; 2525 days old.
- #32505: colorize the changed text a different color?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@HIDDEN>; 2511 days old.
- #32993: Pathologically slow operation
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@HIDDEN>; 2464 days old.
- #33144: Replace some loops with str functions
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "Kapus, Timotej" <timotej.kapus13@HIDDEN>; 2448 days old.
- #33176: cmp bug
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Дмитрий Маренков <marenkovdmitriy@HIDDEN>; 2445 days old.
- #33427: question or RFE on diff -r handling non-same files: show new/older when they "differ"
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: L A Walsh <gnu@HIDDEN>; 2422 days old.
- #33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Delian Krustev <krustev-diffutils@HIDDEN>; 2419 days old.
- #33813: GNU diffutils 3.6 – 'diff -y' – Several mark types used as separators instead of one – Inappropriate options combinations
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg@HIDDEN>; 2391 days old.
- #33947: Failure building diffutils-3.7 (openSUSE:Factory)
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Sean Lewis <sean@HIDDEN>; 2379 days old.
- #33965: handling of closed file descriptors
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 2377 days old.
- #33970: Issue dpkg with diff
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Sergio Sámano <sergio_samano_salazar@HIDDEN>; 2377 days old.
- #34259: --*-line-format results are different from the default.
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 2350 days old.
- #34376: How to submit a bug fix?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Richard Gering <Richard.Gering@HIDDEN>; 2342 days old.
- #34519: Test "colors" fails on Debian/ppc64el
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>;
merged with #25402,
#36488; 2332 days old.
- #34578: Support for different coloration of --- and +++ headers?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@HIDDEN>; 2330 days old.
- #34705: Cannot get white space to be ignored
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Mallika Bachan <mallika.bachan@HIDDEN>; 2320 days old.
- #35214: [Bug][diff][3.3] diff showing difference when there is none
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: 方然 <ufo2243@HIDDEN>; 2280 days old.
- #35451: Typo in the manual
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@HIDDEN>; 2263 days old.
- #35730: Diffutils manual refers to wrong node of Emacs manual
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: jorge+list@HIDDEN (Jorge P. de Morais Neto); 2246 days old.
- #36488: diffutils 3.7 make check failure ppc64le opensuse on colors test
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Normand <normand@HIDDEN>;
merged with #25402,
#34519; 2196 days old.
- #37381: [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 2126 days old.
- #37844: [PATCH] cmp -x/--verbose-hex
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "dmo2118@HIDDEN" <dmo2118@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch; 2086 days old.
- #38779: Document conflicting options better
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 2018 days old.
- #39688: is a socket
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Norbert de Jonge <mail@HIDDEN>; 1964 days old.
- #39868: Fix for diff -ZE behaviour
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: felix <felix.von.s@HIDDEN>; 1953 days old.
- #39910: Add color to "No newline at end of file"
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@HIDDEN>; 1951 days old.
- #40018: How to diff PDF files?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 1945 days old.
- #40020: package:diffutils; package-version:1:3.7-3; BUG on options: --exclude and --new-file used together
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: "camel bright" <solar020@HIDDEN>; 1945 days old.
- #41777: Feature: colorize diff -q
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Ed Avis <ed.avis@HIDDEN>; 1854 days old.
- #43923: "only in" message in recursive diff is ambiguous and hence useless if the directories have the same name
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: php fan <php4fan@HIDDEN>; 1730 days old.
- #44378: diff Manual
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292@HIDDEN>; 1709 days old.
- #44379: File name affects patch patched file regardless of diff
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292@HIDDEN>; 1709 days old.
- #44838: diff 3.7 incorrectly reports added lines and can generate huge diffs
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1686 days old.
- #45350: Errors in man pages
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@HIDDEN>; 1659 days old.
- #45439: Mistake in string
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Daniel Tisi <daniel.tisi@HIDDEN>; 1655 days old.
- #46134: Improvement of diff
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Joaquim Luque <joaquiml@HIDDEN>; 1622 days old.
- #46550: bug in diff -r?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Stan Schymanski <schymans@HIDDEN>; 1603 days old.
- #48047: provide --dereference
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@HIDDEN>; 1533 days old.
- #48081: diff on windows doest work with same path but different drives
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: dreverser@HIDDEN; 1531 days old.
- #48168: diff: mention if any GNU extensions
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 1527 days old.
- #48516: diff.c:764: possible wrong operator ?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: David Binderman <dcb314@HIDDEN>; 1510 days old.
- #48791: diff ( -q option )
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: saransh bhatnagar <saransh87@HIDDEN>; 1496 days old.
- #49038: Speeding up diff on Windows
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem@HIDDEN>; 1483 days old.
- #50165: GNU diff '--recursive' should continue on "input/output error". GNU cmp should have missing '--recursive' option.
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: YruNlsr6371bDg <fhdpo2zdkgrgktctxxumrxd2ayhtdf@HIDDEN>; 1415 days old.
- #51958: Difference between "diff" and "diff3"
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: <marc@HIDDEN>; 1327 days old.
- #52111: coloring bug in diff -y ?
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: linuxprocess@HIDDEN; 1320 days old.
- #53449: diffutils-3.8 configure script depends on cmp
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Ilari Jääskeläinen <ijaaskelainen@HIDDEN>; 1262 days old.
- #54365: the .gitignore file is modified
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1213 days old.
- #54366: option -L is not documented in the "diff --help" output
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1212 days old.
- #59387: Request to release new m4/diffutils with updated gnulib
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Zhang Ning <zhangn1985@HIDDEN>; 961 days old.
- #60855: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon@HIDDEN>; 903 days old.
- #61377: Too many [-Wsign-compare] warnings
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@HIDDEN>; 879 days old.
- #61378: Makefile: rule to make target 'test-nl_langinfo.c' is missing
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@HIDDEN>; 879 days old.
- #61966: diff -r reports identical devices nodes (maj/min) as different
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@HIDDEN>; 856 days old.
- #62727: diff dirs without file content
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: dinar qurbanov <qdinar@HIDDEN>; 821 days old.
- #63632: diffutils 3.10: test suite is failing in test-strtoll unit
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@HIDDEN>; 778 days old.
- #64811: Win-version now broken
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 715 days old.
- #64860: Win-version now broken
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 713 days old.
- #66095: diff quoting for names with spaces changed after v3.10-171-g69ae797392
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@HIDDEN>; 658 days old.
- #67541: diff -r reporting two fifos as somehow different
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: kevin dankwardt <kevin.dankwardt@HIDDEN>; 585 days old.
- #71269: [PATCH 1/2] sdiff: Match execvp argument types
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch; 403 days old.
- #71529: Crash for large directory due to memory outage
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Evan Greenup <evan_greenup@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 389 days old.
- #72723: diff -d can be very slow
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 322 days old.
- #77507: 12 failures from "make check"
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Derek Clegg <derek@HIDDEN>; 95 days old.
- #77615: difference in diff -wB with and without -u
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@HIDDEN>; 91 days old.
- #77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@HIDDEN>; 82 days old.
- #78019: LTO build fails with diffutils 3.12
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Christian Hesse <list@HIDDEN>; 75 days old.
- #78111: new test failure: test-nstrftime-2.sh
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 70 days old.
- #78213: should produce a diff with similar lines grouped together if possible
Package: diffutils;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 66 days old.
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