[bug-diffutils] bug#18641: bug#18641: [PATCH] diff: Add --only=REGEX option to parse only files that match REGEX

[Daniel Hilst Selli]

On 10/06/2014 09:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/05/2014 02:05 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote:
> > I run to this problem some time ago. I need to parse to trees, but
> > only the source files (*.[hcS]). I see some find solutions, but that
> > don't work for me since I have new files created on modified
> > tree. Best solution would be patch diff. So here I am.
> This feels like feature bloat.  What's wrong with using 'find' to locate
> the subset of files you are interested in, then running diff on those files?

I would need to find every file that, exist on one tree and not on
another. This mean getting a list of files on two trees and comparing, what is 
complex,
error prone and slower.