diffstat
Diffstat reads the output of the diff command and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications in each file. Diffstat is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large, complex patch files.
| Tags | Software Development Version Control Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 29 Mar 2009 20:49
Changes: Modified to work with patch ".rej" files.
- 02 Sep 2008 09:41
Changes: The "-S", "-D", and "-m" options were added to provide a way to show the amount of difference relative to the total sizes of the files. The "-q" option was added to suppress the message for empty files.
- 15 May 2008 11:44
Changes: A "-b" option for ignoring binary file differences was implemented.
- 26 Aug 2007 14:13
Changes: This release adds a check to ensure that unified diffs embedded in another file (such as email) do not count text past the last chunk of the diff.
- 16 Jul 2006 19:52
Changes: A bugfix to avoid modifying data that is being used by tsearch() for ordering the binary tree.
