Log message:
Update to 1.59:

2014/06/05 (diffstat 1.59)
	+ add -E option to filter escape-sequences, e.g., from colordiff
	  (Ubuntu #1304262).

	+ merge/adapt improvments to makefile and configure script from
	  openembedded.org (forwarded by Ross Burton).
	  + remove unused $(libdir) from makefile "installdirs" target
	  + amend definition in CF_POPEN_TEST to permit use of autoheader.
	  + workaround for gratuitous renaming of AC_ACVERSION in 2.69

	+ added "docs" rule to makefile

	+ improvements to configure macros:
	  + added check for -Wlogical-op to gcc warnings
	  + suppress check for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris
	  + trim an unwanted -no-gcc option for Intel compiler

	+ update config.guess, config.sub

2013/10/28 (diffstat 1.58)
	+ add COPYING file (request by Dagobert Michelsen).

	+ improved portability for cross-compiling, by supplying missing
	  getopt function as well as improving checks for popen/pclose
	  prototypes.

	+ updated configure macros, e.g., for MingW and MSYS fixes.

	+ update config.guess, config.sub

Log message:
Update to 1.57. Changes:

Improve treatment of binary files in ambiguous message introduced in
diffutils 2.8.4, and finally corrected in 3.0.

Log message:
Update to 1.56:

2013/02/11 (diffstat 1.56)
	+ add -K option which attempts to improve the annotation of "only"
	  files by looking for a match in the resulting set of files and
	  inferring whether the file was added or removed (request by Marc
	  Haber).

	+ add check of command-line options for valid numbers.

	+ improve merging of patches for the same filename (report/testcase by
	  Paul E McKenney).

	+ document -d option in manpage.

	+ document -b, -C, -s option in usage (patch by Tim Waugh, Red Hat
	  #852770)

	+ modify configure script as done for byacc in 2012/10/03, making the
	  2.52-patches the prerequisite and adding support for --datarootdir
	  option.

	+ update config.guess, config.sub

	+ add logic to handle SVN diffs when the pathnames contain spaces
	  (patch by Stuart Prescott, Debian #675475).

	+ fix typo in package/debian/control

2012/01/03 (diffstat 1.55)
	+ add -R option, like patch's, to reverse the order of the comparison.

	+ FreeBSD ports/148604, ports/149500 reported that lzcat may not
	  support extracting files compressed in xz format (patch by Frederic
	  Culot, FreeBSD #149500).

	+ address documentation issue raised in Novell #739210

	+ correct typo s/Solaris/Solar/.

	+ updated configure script macros:
	  CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK CF_DISABLE_LEAKS CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_GCC_WARNINGS
	  CF_MAKE_TAGS CF_MSG_LOG CF_PATH_PROG CF_WITH_INSTALL_PREFIX
	  CF_XOPEN_SOURCE

	+ update config.guess, config.sub

2010/10/10 (diffstat 1.54)
	+ change Debian package script to use native format.

	+ correct counts used for new files when -S/-D options are used.

	+ minor typography improvement to manpage (patch by Solar Designer)

	+ remove the temporary directory on error, introduced in 1.48+ (patch
	  by Solar Designer).

2010/07/19 (diffstat 1.53)

	+ add missing "break" statement which left "-c" option \ 
falling-through
	  into "-C".

2010/07/16 (diffstat 1.52)

	+ add "-C" option to show the histogram using SGR colors.

	+ add "-s" option to show only the summary line.

	+ add configure check for "xz", using this in preference to \ 
"lzcat"
	  (FreeBSD #148604).

	+ also escape literal dashes used as part of the histogram in the
	  manpage.

	+ modify hyphens vs dashes in manpage per
		http://lintian.debian.org/tags/hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.html
	  (patch by Francois Marier).

	+ drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p"

	+ add configure checks for ctags and lint.

	+ updated configure macros

	+ reformat CHANGES to work with metrics script.

	+ fix strict gcc warnings, e.g., using const.

	+ improve a case where filenames have embedded blanks (patch by Reinier
	  Post).

	+ update config.guess, config.sub

Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.

Log message:
Update diffstat to 1.51.  Minor bugfixes.

Log message:
Update to 1.49.  Changes:
31-Aug-2009
	diffstat 1.49

	improve lzma support, add support for xz (patch by Eric Blake).

	add special case for no-newline message from some diff's (Ubuntu
	#269895).

	improve configure check for getopt header.

	add configure special case for HPUX 11 with _XOPEN_SOURCE definition.

	update config.guess, config.sub

Log message:
Update to 1.48:

11-Aug-2009
	diffstat 1.48

	add decompression tests for lzma and pack file types.

	check for zcat and uncompress in preference to "compress -dc".

	modify to check the first few bytes of standard input, and use a
	corresponding decompression utility if the stream appears to be
	compressed.  This requires making a temporary copy of the data
	(Debian #491575).

	add -N option, to truncate filenames.

	use getc_unlocked() rather than fgetc_unlocked()

	modify to recognize Perforce-style diffs (patch by Ed Schouten).

	update configure macros to improve compiler warning checks, use
	$PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATH_SEP (for consistency with some
	autoconf versions),

	fix typo in configure --with-install-prefix option (report by
	Dagobert Michelsen).

	update config.guess, config.sub

29-Mar-2009
	diffstat 1.47

	modify to work with patch ".rej" files, which do not have a header to
	tell which file is affected.

	fix typo in usage message (reports by Moritz Barsnick, John McNamara,
	Richard Quadling).

Log message:
Update to 1.46.

Changes:
* add "-S", "-D" and "-m" to provide a way to show \ 
the amount of
  difference relative to the total sizes of the files.
* add "-q" (suppress the "0 files changed" message for empty \ 
diffs)

Log message:
Update HOMEPAGES and MASTER_SITES; from Sergey Svishchev.

Log message:
Supports DESTDIR.