On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Upstream update: > > * Noteworthy changes in release 2.9 (2010-02-11) [stable] > > ** New features > > New diff option --suppress-blank-empty. > > Bring back support for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number, > even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. This change reverts to > the behavior of GNU diff 2.7 and earlier. This is a change only > when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when > conforming to older POSIX versions. > > This change is in response to decisions taken in the January 2005 > Austin Group standardization meeting. For more details, please see > "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005 > Meeting <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html>. > > sdiff now understands '1' and '2' as synonyms for 'l' and 'r'. > > ** Changes in behavior > > sdiff and diff3 now invoke diff, not $(bindir)/diff > > ** Administrivia > > New discussion and bug-reporting address: [email protected] > > updated gnulib support > > > Signoff both, > Allan >
signoff both. Ronald
