I have released version 0.4.5 of patchutils and also built it in Fedora rawhide. This is a stability-focused update fixing compatibility issues and bugs, some of which had been introduced in 0.4.4.
Compatibility Fix: Git Extended Diffs
Version 0.4.4 added support in the filterdiff suite for Git’s extended diff format. Git diffs without content hunks (such as renames, copies, mode-only changes and binary files) were included in the output. This broke compatibility with 0.4.3.
For 0.4.5 this functionality is now gated with a --git-extended-diffs=include|exclude parameter. The default for 0.4.x is to exclude files in Git extended diffs with no content. There were also some fixes relating to file numbering for these types of diffs.
Note: in 0.5.x this default will change to include.
Status Indictors for grepdiff
Previously grepdiff --status showed ! for all matching files, but now it correctly reports them as additions (+), removals (-) or modifications (!).
As always, bug reports and feature requests are welcome on GitHub. Thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped to test fixes!
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