bug#6176: [PATCH 2/2] sort: --debug: output data independent key warnings

2010-05-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
The attached patch gives warnings about questionable option combinations. For example: $ sort --debug -rb -k1,1n /dev/null ! options `-b' are ignored ! option `-r' only applies to last-resort comparison cheers, Pádraig. >From 2256de4bdc458ef9e9d92e2009f255bfd3fa2e36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From:

bug#6176: [PATCH 1/2] sort: add a --debug option to highlight key extents

2010-05-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
The attached patch allows one to: $ printf "one 2 3e3e" | .sort --debug -k3,3g -k2,2 one 2 3e3e ___ __ __ cheers, Pádraig >From b22891eea88a87a678fcccabc731327680af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:43:04 + Subject

bug#6175: dirname manpage and info page partially wrong/misleading

2010-05-11 Thread Filipus Klutiero
This report is about 2 separate issues in the dirname documentation. The info page is much better than the manual page, but says: `dirname' prints all but the final slash-delimited component of a string (presumably a file name, but also works on directories). The parenthese is wrong; there is no

bug#6169: [PATCH 1/2] build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2010-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, >From 844b2570b3206f5483522242ca369929c7cff062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:50:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] build: update gnulib submodule to latest * tests/init.sh: Update from gnulib, to fix typo. --- gnulib|2 +- tests/init.sh |2