On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM Mandar Mitra <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert Webb wrote (Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:06:11PM -0700): > > Mandar, I can confirm that the --to-file option as a directory results > > in only the first command-line file > > being diffed, with errors for the others. > > Many thanks for confirming! Is there anything I can do to help fix this, or > would it be absolutely straightforward for you to patch the correct handling > from 3.6 (say) into 3.12?
I am just a user of diffutils, like you. You could maybe find the exact version that changed diff's behavior. That would focus on a small set of source code changes where the problem might be. -- Robert Webb
