From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
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stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
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Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
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Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
srw@sladewatkins.net, rwarsow@gmx.de
Subject: Re: diffutils file mode (was Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/37] 5.15.96-rc2 review)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:32:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230224113247.07a660eb44198499314a9e96@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiZ9vaM23eW2k4R-ovtcWLyL8PWvnCG=RyeY4XXgZ6BCg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:16:52 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> But as far as I can tell, GNU diffutils have never actually grown the
> ability to generate those extensions, even though at least the mode
> bit one should be fairly simple (the file rename/copy ones are rather
> more complicated, but those are just a "make diffs more legible and
> compact" convenience thing, unlike the executable bit thing that
> allows for scripts to remain executable).
yeah, irritating.
Can we use git instead of diff? I tried once, but it didn't work -
perhaps because it didn't like doing stuff outside a git repo.
However, trying it now...
hp2:/home/akpm> mkdir foo
hp2:/home/akpm> cd foo
hp2:/home/akpm/foo> date > a
hp2:/home/akpm/foo> cp a b
hp2:/home/akpm/foo> chmod +x a
hp2:/home/akpm/foo> git diff a b
diff --git a/a b/b
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-24 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-24 19:16 Linus Torvalds
2023-02-24 19:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-02-24 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-24 20:20 ` Paul Eggert
2023-02-24 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-24 20:51 ` Slade Watkins
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