diffutils 2.8.4-1: parameter --tabsize broken, getopt issue?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:49:41PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Both 'man diff' and 'diff --help' refer to the parameter --tabsize as
>follows:
>
>--tabsize=NUM Tab stops are every NUM (default 8) print columns.
>
>But this seems to be broken:
>
>$ echo -e "\t\tfilea" > filea; echo "\t\t\tfileb" > fileb; diff
>--tabsize=4 filea fileb diff: option `--tabsize' doesn't allow an
>argument diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.

This seems to be fixed in diffutils 2.8.7.  I've made a new release
available.  It should be percolating to mirrors soon.

cgf

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