Re: [bug-diffutils] I'd like to release 3.3

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention new option, --no-dereference in 3.3's NEWS
>
> * NEWS (New feeatures): Update 3.3's news to mention --no-dereference.
> Reported by Denis Excoffier.
> * Makefile.am (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since this modifies old, and
> normally-immutable NEWS.
> ---
>  NEWS   | 4 ++++
>  cfg.mk | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index ef73e2f..f759dcd 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS                                    -*- 
> outline -*-
>
>  ** New features
>
> +  diff's new option, --no-dereference, allows comparison of symbolic link
> +  strings.  With this option, two symbolic links compare equal when they have
> +  the same value, even when that value does not reference a readable file.

I didn't like that, so changed the wording:

>From 417363e4ce3e0195b539a4170ff0cda91400dbc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:50:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention new option, --no-dereference in 3.3's NEWS

* NEWS (New feeatures): Update 3.3's news to mention --no-dereference.
Reported by Denis Excoffier.
* Makefile.am (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since this modifies old, and
normally-immutable NEWS.
---
 NEWS   | 6 ++++++
 cfg.mk | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ef73e2f..ac7a75e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

 ** New features

+  diff accepts a new option, --no-dereference.  With this option, symbolic
+  links are treated specially: as a separate type of file that can compare
+  equal only to another symbolic link with the same value.  For example,
+  with --no-dereference, two symbolic links compare equal when they have
+  the same value, even when that value does not reference a readable file.
+
   --new-file (-N) and --unidirectional-new-file now allow comparisons to "-".
   A standard input that's closed acts like a nonexistent file.

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 1db88cf..d37bea9 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes

-old_NEWS_hash = 1d1b7468264850b366b1138bd78e5520
+old_NEWS_hash = 8632093db0c946f65f639f06ac7de39a

 # Tell maint.mk's syntax-check rules that diff gets config.h directly or
 # via diff.h or system.h.
--
1.8.2.135.g7b592fa