From 3fa7218567bdcf958f1342c13c848c9e2f2d38c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:13:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] maint: add 'diff --git' TODO

* TODO: Suggest better compatibility with 'git diff -p'.
From a suggestion by Linus Torvalds
<https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/24/797>.
---
 TODO | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 5132de8..25fc22b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Add --git option to generate output compatible with 'git diff -p'.
+This would behave like 'diff -p', except that it would also generate
+the extended headers 'old mode', 'new mode', 'deleted file mode', and
+'new file mode', and it would quote file names with unusual characters.
+GNU patch already parses this format.
+
 Add --include option (opposite of --exclude).
 
 Look into sdiff improvement here:
-- 
2.37.2