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Feature: suppress timestamps in output |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:03:25 +0000 |
Sometimes it is useful to get deterministic results from diff, so that the same
input data produces the same output.
I accept that the timestamps diff includes come from the input files specified,
not the time when diff was run, so in that sense they are deterministic.
But still it is awkward to have to touch(1) the input files or otherwise mess
around in order to guarantee that the same input contents produce the same diff.
Please consider a --no-timestamp flag which stops diff printing the timestamp
of the input files in the header of its output.
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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21539: bug#21539: Feature: suppress timestamps in output |
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Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:41:32 -0700 |
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Thanks, I applied that patch and am marking this as done.
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