summary:

GNU source differencing utilities

description:

Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. The diff command compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files; it can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original, and can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively.

categories:

Base Utils

build-depends:

autoconf, automake, cygport, gcc-core, gettext-devel, help2man, libiconv-devel, libintl-devel, libsigsegv-devel, make, texinfo

install package(s):

diffutils, diffutils-debuginfo

homepage:

https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/

license:

GPL-3.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.3-or-later (SPDX)

maintainer(s):

Brian Inglis (Use the mailing list to report bugs or ask questions. Do not contact the maintainer(s) directly.)

packaging repository:

diffutils.git

repology info:

diffutils (3.12)

importance:

base