On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:16:52 -0800 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
But as far as I can tell, GNU diffutils have never actually grown the ability to generate those extensions, even though at least the mode bit one should be fairly simple (the file rename/copy ones are rather more complicated, but those are just a "make diffs more legible and compact" convenience thing, unlike the executable bit thing that allows for scripts to remain executable).
yeah, irritating.
Can we use git instead of diff? I tried once, but it didn't work - perhaps because it didn't like doing stuff outside a git repo.
However, trying it now...
hp2:/home/akpm> mkdir foo hp2:/home/akpm> cd foo hp2:/home/akpm/foo> date > a hp2:/home/akpm/foo> cp a b hp2:/home/akpm/foo> chmod +x a hp2:/home/akpm/foo> git diff a b diff --git a/a b/b old mode 100755 new mode 100644