(Reposting on correct list):
I was doing a "diff -rq ./src ./dev
to find areas of 'dev' that hadn't been rolled into src when I
realized some patches had gone into src directly. Rather than
just telling me files "differed", it really would be useful,
sometimes, to know which of two files under a recursive
tree-diff was newer, older or had the same last mtime.
Is there a switch for this in diff that would accomplish this,
or does this fall into an RFE?
Thanks!
-linda
I.e. some examples:
currently:
> diff -rwq ~/{,w}bin -x RCS -x orig >/tmp/diffs
1) Files bin/dtlog and wbin/dtlog differ
2) Only in bin: dtlog.save
For case '1' maybe something like
--when-diff=cmp-mtimes,show-relative
showing output like:
file1-mtime < file2=mtime
or
--when-same=cmp-owners
showing something like:
file1-owner: root file2-owner: daemon
