[debbugs-tracker] bug#17185: closed (diff --help doesn't mention short forms of some options)

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> diff --help doesn't mention short forms of some options
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> Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:05:21 +0100
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> $ diff --help | egrep "label|unidirectional|speed"
>       --label LABEL             use LABEL instead of file name
>       --unidirectional-new-file   treat absent first files as empty
>       --speed-large-files  assume large files and many scattered small changes
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> It would be nice if the help text told me that these options have
> short forms -L, -P and -H respectively.
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> Thanks,
> Jay.
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> Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#17185: diff --help doesn't mention short forms of some options
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> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Jay Foad <address@hidden> wrote:
> > $ diff --help | egrep "label|unidirectional|speed"
> >       --label LABEL             use LABEL instead of file name
> >       --unidirectional-new-file   treat absent first files as empty
> >       --speed-large-files  assume large files and many scattered small changes
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> > It would be nice if the help text told me that these options have
> > short forms -L, -P and -H respectively.
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> Thanks for noticing, but I have deliberately undocumented those
> short-named options because they are slated to be used differently in
> a future release: for link-traversal control, as is already done in
> many other tools, e.g., find, cp, du:
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> $ cp --help|grep -e '-[LHP]'
>   -H                           follow command-line symbolic links in SOURCE
>   -L, --dereference            always follow symbolic links in SOURCE
>   -P, --no-dereference         never follow symbolic links in SOURCE
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