Jim Meyering wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention new option, --no-dereference in 3.3's NEWS > > * NEWS (New feeatures): Update 3.3's news to mention --no-dereference. > Reported by Denis Excoffier. > * Makefile.am (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since this modifies old, and > normally-immutable NEWS. > --- > NEWS | 4 ++++ > cfg.mk | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index ef73e2f..f759dcd 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- > outline -*- > > ** New features > > + diff's new option, --no-dereference, allows comparison of symbolic link > + strings. With this option, two symbolic links compare equal when they have > + the same value, even when that value does not reference a readable file.
I didn't like that, so changed the wording: >From 417363e4ce3e0195b539a4170ff0cda91400dbc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:50:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention new option, --no-dereference in 3.3's NEWS * NEWS (New feeatures): Update 3.3's news to mention --no-dereference. Reported by Denis Excoffier. * Makefile.am (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since this modifies old, and normally-immutable NEWS. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ cfg.mk | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ef73e2f..ac7a75e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features + diff accepts a new option, --no-dereference. With this option, symbolic + links are treated specially: as a separate type of file that can compare + equal only to another symbolic link with the same value. For example, + with --no-dereference, two symbolic links compare equal when they have + the same value, even when that value does not reference a readable file. + --new-file (-N) and --unidirectional-new-file now allow comparisons to "-". A standard input that's closed acts like a nonexistent file. diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 1db88cf..d37bea9 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib # Now that we have better tests, make this the default. export VERBOSE = yes -old_NEWS_hash = 1d1b7468264850b366b1138bd78e5520 +old_NEWS_hash = 8632093db0c946f65f639f06ac7de39a # Tell maint.mk's syntax-check rules that diff gets config.h directly or # via diff.h or system.h. -- 1.8.2.135.g7b592fa
