2016/01/14 (diffstat 1.61)
+ add -T option to show amount of changes next to histogram.
+ if -S option is given, check for unmodified files and add those to
the report.
+ update configure macros
+ update config.guess, config.sub
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package cabocha: missing distfile cabocha-0.68.tar.bz2
Package convertlit: missing distfile clit18src.zip
Package php-enchant: missing distfile php-enchant/enchant-1.1.0.tgz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
2014/06/05 (diffstat 1.59)
+ add -E option to filter escape-sequences, e.g., from colordiff
(Ubuntu #1304262).
+ merge/adapt improvments to makefile and configure script from
openembedded.org (forwarded by Ross Burton).
+ remove unused $(libdir) from makefile "installdirs" target
+ amend definition in CF_POPEN_TEST to permit use of autoheader.
+ workaround for gratuitous renaming of AC_ACVERSION in 2.69
+ added "docs" rule to makefile
+ improvements to configure macros:
+ added check for -Wlogical-op to gcc warnings
+ suppress check for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris
+ trim an unwanted -no-gcc option for Intel compiler
+ update config.guess, config.sub
2013/10/28 (diffstat 1.58)
+ add COPYING file (request by Dagobert Michelsen).
+ improved portability for cross-compiling, by supplying missing
getopt function as well as improving checks for popen/pclose
prototypes.
+ updated configure macros, e.g., for MingW and MSYS fixes.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
2013/02/11 (diffstat 1.56)
+ add -K option which attempts to improve the annotation of "only"
files by looking for a match in the resulting set of files and
inferring whether the file was added or removed (request by Marc
Haber).
+ add check of command-line options for valid numbers.
+ improve merging of patches for the same filename (report/testcase by
Paul E McKenney).
+ document -d option in manpage.
+ document -b, -C, -s option in usage (patch by Tim Waugh, Red Hat
#852770)
+ modify configure script as done for byacc in 2012/10/03, making the
2.52-patches the prerequisite and adding support for --datarootdir
option.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ add logic to handle SVN diffs when the pathnames contain spaces
(patch by Stuart Prescott, Debian #675475).
+ fix typo in package/debian/control
2012/01/03 (diffstat 1.55)
+ add -R option, like patch's, to reverse the order of the comparison.
+ FreeBSD ports/148604, ports/149500 reported that lzcat may not
support extracting files compressed in xz format (patch by Frederic
Culot, FreeBSD #149500).
+ address documentation issue raised in Novell #739210
+ correct typo s/Solaris/Solar/.
+ updated configure script macros:
CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK CF_DISABLE_LEAKS CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_GCC_WARNINGS
CF_MAKE_TAGS CF_MSG_LOG CF_PATH_PROG CF_WITH_INSTALL_PREFIX
CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
+ update config.guess, config.sub
2010/10/10 (diffstat 1.54)
+ change Debian package script to use native format.
+ correct counts used for new files when -S/-D options are used.
+ minor typography improvement to manpage (patch by Solar Designer)
+ remove the temporary directory on error, introduced in 1.48+ (patch
by Solar Designer).
2010/07/19 (diffstat 1.53)
+ add missing "break" statement which left "-c" option falling-through
into "-C".
2010/07/16 (diffstat 1.52)
+ add "-C" option to show the histogram using SGR colors.
+ add "-s" option to show only the summary line.
+ add configure check for "xz", using this in preference to "lzcat"
(FreeBSD #148604).
+ also escape literal dashes used as part of the histogram in the
manpage.
+ modify hyphens vs dashes in manpage per
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.html
(patch by Francois Marier).
+ drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p"
+ add configure checks for ctags and lint.
+ updated configure macros
+ reformat CHANGES to work with metrics script.
+ fix strict gcc warnings, e.g., using const.
+ improve a case where filenames have embedded blanks (patch by Reinier
Post).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
31-Aug-2009
diffstat 1.49
improve lzma support, add support for xz (patch by Eric Blake).
add special case for no-newline message from some diff's (Ubuntu
#269895).
improve configure check for getopt header.
add configure special case for HPUX 11 with _XOPEN_SOURCE definition.
update config.guess, config.sub
11-Aug-2009
diffstat 1.48
add decompression tests for lzma and pack file types.
check for zcat and uncompress in preference to "compress -dc".
modify to check the first few bytes of standard input, and use a
corresponding decompression utility if the stream appears to be
compressed. This requires making a temporary copy of the data
(Debian #491575).
add -N option, to truncate filenames.
use getc_unlocked() rather than fgetc_unlocked()
modify to recognize Perforce-style diffs (patch by Ed Schouten).
update configure macros to improve compiler warning checks, use
$PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATH_SEP (for consistency with some
autoconf versions),
fix typo in configure --with-install-prefix option (report by
Dagobert Michelsen).
update config.guess, config.sub
29-Mar-2009
diffstat 1.47
modify to work with patch ".rej" files, which do not have a header to
tell which file is affected.
fix typo in usage message (reports by Moritz Barsnick, John McNamara,
Richard Quadling).
Changes:
* add "-S", "-D" and "-m" to provide a way to show the amount of
difference relative to the total sizes of the files.
* add "-q" (suppress the "0 files changed" message for empty diffs)
From changelog:
04-Sep-2007
diffstat 1.45
add "-b" option (Debian #379380, patch by Greg Norris).
26-Aug-2007
diffstat 1.44
add a check for default-diff output, e.g., "diff foo bar|diffstat",
which has no "diff" command in the output for diffstat to guess that
a diff is beginning.
add a check after completing a chunk for unified diff to ensure that
the next line either begins another chunk for the diff, or starts
another diff, e.g., a context diff (report by Adrian Bunk).
add configure options for leak-checking valgrind, etc.
use install-sh rather than install.sh
updated config.guess and config.sub
updated configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_GCC_WARNINGS CF_MSG_LOG
CF_PATH_SYNTAX CF_VERBOSE CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
Changes since 1.41:
- fix to avoid modifying data which is being used by tsearch() for
ordering the binary tree (report by Adrian Bunk).
- do not ignore pathnames in /tmp/, since some tools create usable
pathnames for both old/new files there (Debian #376086).
- correct ifdef for fgetc_unlocked().
- updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION, CF_PATH_SYNTAX and
CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
- add configure check for compress, gzip and bzip2 programs that may be
used to decompress files.
* add options -l, -r and -t. add to -f option
* improve I/O on Linux using fgetc_locked().
* improve searching of long sorted lists using tsearch()
* change order of merging and prefix-stripping so stripping all prefixes,
e.g., with -p9, will be sorted as expected
* correct a reference to freed memory after merging found with valgrind.
* fix a different case for data beginning with "--" which was treated as
a header line.
* Fix allocation problems. Open files in binary mode for reading.
Getopt returns -1, not necessarily EOF. Add const where useful. Use
NO_IDENT where necessary. malloc() comes from <stdlib.h> in standard
systems
* minor fix for resync of unified diffs checks for range (line beginning
with '@' without header lines (successive lines beginning with "---"
and "+++")
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
* Improve check for certain lines (not those that begin a chunk) that
begin with '-', treating all except "---" as a delete (report by
James Rowe <Jay@jnrowe.uklinux.net>).
* Minor updates to configure script.
From the readme:
This program is a simple filter that reads the output of the 'diff' program,
and produces a histogram of the total number of lines that were changed. It is
useful for scanning a patch file to see which files were changed.
