Dear Peers, I'm using diff and have noticed one small issue. I'm using it for helping with creating patch files for perl. But, have noticed one small limitation. Diff doesn't want to specify a difference for a file that is empty and created vs a file that isn't there. Example: -------- perl-5.10.x/.... /.Zork.pm ( is an empty file that has been newly created with a size of 0-bytes) perl-5.10.0/.... does not contain the file or the new directory where the file is in perl-5.10.x
If you do a 'diff -aNurp perl-5.10.0 perl-5.10.x', you don't get the newly created directory or file that has been created. Maybe adding an option to allow 0-byte files being created when they don't originally exist in the source location. But, then again, I'm not sure how patch will handle the output to create the 0-byte file either.... Any help is welcome or suggested. As a side note, I've temporarily fixed this by finding all the 0-byte files and creating them with a script after patching with the changes. James Kosin
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