Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:32:47 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: diffutils file mode (was Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/37] 5.15.96-rc2 review) |
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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
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