Re: [bug-diffutils] Bug#648411: diffutils: description of -I option is wrong (fwd)

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks, I applied this to the diffutils master branch:

>From a96c4da999cc1704146ea0eb7ba86c6dbbea1cad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:19:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: explain -I RE better in --help output

* src/diff.c, src/sdiff.c (option_help_msgid): For -I RE,
change "whose lines all match" to "all whose lines match" to avoid
unintended interpretation.  Reported by Danijel Tasov in
<http://bugs.debian.org/648411>.
---
 src/diff.c  |    2 +-
 src/sdiff.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diff.c b/src/diff.c
index 200112b..85950fa 100644
--- a/src/diff.c
+++ b/src/diff.c
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ static char const * const option_help_msgid[] = {
   N_("-b, --ignore-space-change       ignore changes in the amount of white 
space"),
   N_("-w, --ignore-all-space          ignore all white space"),
   N_("-B, --ignore-blank-lines        ignore changes whose lines are all 
blank"),
-  N_("-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE  ignore changes whose lines all match 
RE"),
+  N_("-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE  ignore changes all whose lines match 
RE"),
   "",
   N_("-a, --text                      treat all files as text"),
   N_("    --strip-trailing-cr         strip trailing carriage return on 
input"),
diff --git a/src/sdiff.c b/src/sdiff.c
index ceda3db..63b2861 100644
--- a/src/sdiff.c
+++ b/src/sdiff.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static char const * const option_help_msgid[] = {
   N_("-b, --ignore-space-change    ignore changes in the amount of white 
space"),
   N_("-W, --ignore-all-space       ignore all white space"),
   N_("-B, --ignore-blank-lines     ignore changes whose lines are all blank"),
-  N_("-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE  ignore changes whose lines all match 
RE"),
+  N_("-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE  ignore changes all whose lines match 
RE"),
   N_("    --strip-trailing-cr      strip trailing carriage return on input"),
   N_("-a, --text                   treat all files as text"),
   "",
-- 
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