[bug-diffutils] Re: [PATCH] added 2 options to diff

[Ehud Karni]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:15:26 Jim Meyering wrote:
> >
> > [,A (BI already sent this to the group, but got no response
>
> Maybe you didn't receive it, but there was indeed a response:
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.diffutils.bugs/95

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:22:53 Paul Eggert wrote:

> While I like the idea behind the changes, the proposed patch
> is too narrow.  There should be a way to ask diff to ignore
> (or report) any set of changes to metadata.
> ... [snip] ...
> Ehud, if you're willing to work on this, would you be interested
> in getting the copyright paperwork done, so that we can incorporate
> your work into GNU diff?  If so, please let me know.

I'm willing to work on it and to assign the copyright to the FSF (I
already submitted papers for patches to Emacs).

I'm going on a long vacation so it will take me some time.

Please CC me - I'm not subscribed to the diffutils list.

Ehud.


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