Re: diffutils documentation: conflicting descriptions of -q (--brief) option

[Paul Eggert]

Scott James Cederberg <address@hidden> writes:

>    But the preceding paragraph said that -q causes all files to be
>    treated as *binary* files, not text files.

Thanks; we'll fix the previous parapgraph to say the following instead.

  You can also force @command{diff} to report only whether files
  differ (but not how).  Use the @option{-q} or @option{--brief}
  option for this.