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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.10, Package name: diffutils-3.10, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

GNU diff utilities:

You can use the `diff' command to show differences between two
files, or each corresponding file in two directories. `diff' outputs
differences between files line by line in any of several formats,
selectable by command line options. This set of differences is often
called a "diff" or "patch". For files that are identical, `diff'
normally produces no output; for binary (non-text) files, `diff'
normally reports only that they are different.

You can use the `cmp' command to show the offsets and line numbers
where two files differ. `cmp' can also show all the characters that
differ between the two files, side by side.

You can use the `diff3' command to show differences among three
files. When two people have made independent changes to a common
original, `diff3' can report the differences between the original and
the two changed versions, and can produce a merged file that contains
both persons' changes together with warnings about conflicts.

You can use the `sdiff' command to merge two files interactively.


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[pkgtools/cwrappers]

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   2024-05-26 09:05:45 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
diffutils: updated to 3.10

Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-05-21)

** Bug fixes

  cmp/diff can again work with file dates past Y2K38

  diff -D no longer fails to output #ifndef lines.
   2024-05-01 23:30:48 by Aleksey Cheusov | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Add option "nls" enabled by default
   2023-02-18 23:54:35 by Frederic Cambus | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
diffutils: update to 3.9.

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.9 (2023-01-15) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  diff -c and -u no longer output incorrect timezones in headers
  on platforms like Solaris where struct tm lacks tm_gmtoff.
  [bug#51228 introduced in 3.4]
   2022-04-12 16:24:17 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
diffutils: update to 3.8

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2021-08-01) [stable]

** Incompatible changes

  diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file
  in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'.  This feature was rarely
  if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen
  stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE
  transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid.

** Bug fixes

  diff and related programs no longer get confused if stdin, stdout,
  or stderr are closed.  Previously, they sometimes opened files into
  file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 and then mistakenly did I/O with them
  that was intended for stdin, stdout, or stderr.

  cmp, diff and sdiff no longer treat negative command-line
  option-arguments as if they were large positive numbers.
   2021-10-26 12:20:11 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3016) 
Log message:
archivers: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Could not be committed due to merge conflict:
devel/py-traitlets/distinfo

The following distfiles were unfetchable (note: some may be only fetched
conditionally):

./devel/pvs/distinfo pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
./devel/eclipse/distinfo eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
   2021-10-07 15:44:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3017) 
Log message:
devel: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-01-19 00:36:14 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (3046) 
Log message:
all: migrate several HOMEPAGEs to https

pkglint --only "https instead of http" -r -F

With manual adjustments afterwards since pkglint 19.4.4 fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines.

This mainly affects projects hosted at SourceForce, as well as
freedesktop.org, CTAN and GNU.
   2017-09-08 11:42:34 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (6) 
Log message:
release 3.6:

** New features

  When one file is a prefix of the other, cmp now appends the shorter
  file's size to the EOF diagnostic.

** Bug fixes

  Using an invalid regular expression with --ignore-matching-lines=RE (-I)
  no longer causes stack overflow.  Before, with an invocation like the
  following, diff would diagnose the error, but would still proceed to
  blow the stack: diff -Ia -I\\ <(echo) <(echo b)
  [bug introduced in 2.9]

  diff no longer mishandles line numbers exceeding 2**31 on Mingw-w64.

  the ---presume-output-tty (ostensibly test-only) option would cause
  diff --color to read an uninitialized variable
  [bug introduced in 3.4]

** Performance changes

  diff's default algorithm has been tweaked to deal better with larger
  files, reversing some of the changes made in diffutils-3.4.