linux-kernel - Re: diffutils file mode (was Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/37] 5.15.96-rc2 review)

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Message-ID: <03dac14b-ed62-3e2b-878f-b145383ea9f8@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:20:23 -0800
From:   Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, shuah@...nel.org,
        patches@...nelci.org, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jim Meyering <meyering@...com>
Subject: Re: diffutils file mode (was Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/37] 5.15.96-rc2
 review)

On 2023-02-24 11:16, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>   GNU diffutils have never actually grown the
> ability to generate those extensions

Thanks for pointing this out. I added this to our list of things to do, 
by installing the attached patch to the GNU diffutils TODO file. If this 
patch's wording isn't right, please let me know, as I haven't read this 
whole email thread, just the three emails sent directly to me.
View attachment "0001-maint-add-diff-git-TODO.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (894 bytes)