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 18.1 Suggested Projects for Improving GNU 'diff' and 'patch'
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 One should be able to use GNU 'diff' to generate a patch from any pair
 of directory trees, and given the patch and a copy of one such tree, use
 'patch' to generate a faithful copy of the other.  Unfortunately, some
 changes to directory trees cannot be expressed using current patch
 formats; also, 'patch' does not handle some of the existing formats.
 These shortcomings motivate the following suggested projects.
 

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· Internationalization Handling multibyte and varying-width characters.
· Changing Structure   Handling changes to the directory structure.
· Special Files        Handling symbolic links, device special files, etc.
· Unusual File Names   Handling file names that contain unusual characters.
· Timestamp Order     Outputting diffs in timestamp order.
· Ignoring Changes     Ignoring certain changes while showing others.
· Speedups             Improving performance.
 

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