Some of the modifications from the previous summer of code has been integrated
Modification for compatibility with GNU diff output has been added
Main difference with OpenBSD:
Implement multiple GNU diff options:
* --ignore-file-name-case
* --no-ignore-file-name-case
* --normal
* --tabsize
* --strip-trailing-cr
Make diff -p compatible with GNU diff
Implement diff -l
Make diff -r compatible with GNU diff
Capsicumize diffing 2 regular files
Add a simple test suite
Approved by: AsiaBSDcon devsummit
Obtained from: OpenBSD, GSoC
Relnotes: yes
is to be provided by --suffix). Looking at the usage here in diffutils,
it seems that we can just get rid of the -b .orig stuff. This resolves
a problem that can triggered if we move toward to a more permissively
licensed patch(1) program.
default options for diff. These options are interpreted first and can be
overwritten by explicit command line parameters.
* Add the "-o" option to specify old-traditional output style.
* Add utility functions for env vars obtained from GNU Grep 2.3h.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Subject: man pages for diff et al.
I finally got tired of not having man pages for diff and friends, so I
edited the appropriate sections of the texinfo manual into man format.
