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
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