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[bug-diffutils] bug#21539: Feature: suppress timestamps in output


From: Ed Avis
Subject: [bug-diffutils] bug#21539: Feature: suppress timestamps in output
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:03:25 +0000

Sometimes it is useful to get deterministic results from diff, so that the same 
input data produces the same output.
I accept that the timestamps diff includes come from the input files specified, 
not the time when diff was run, so in that sense they are deterministic.
But still it is awkward to have to touch(1) the input files or otherwise mess 
around in order to guarantee that the same input contents produce the same diff.

Please consider a --no-timestamp flag which stops diff printing the timestamp 
of the input files in the header of its output.

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>
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