On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:16:52 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
