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Error in 'diff3' man page
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Jamie Landeg Jones
2013-12-20 17:34:22 UTC
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Most obsessive/pedantic/picky PR of the year goes to me, with:

The man page for diff3(1) refers to 'info diff' instead of
'info diff3'
% man diff3

Compare the similarity of the end of this page with the end of the
'man diff' page.

Both refer to 'info diff' for more information, but if you compare
the results of 'info diff' and 'info diff3' you'll clearly see that
the man page for diff3 should be referencing 'info diff3'.

Cheers, Jamie
Jamie Landeg Jones
2013-12-23 10:46:31 UTC
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Apologies - I've now resent this to bug-***@gnu.org

However, the page: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Bugs.html
says to post it here!

Sorry for the noise,

Cheers, J.
Jim Meyering
2013-12-23 15:25:34 UTC
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Thank you for mentioning the bug-gnu-utils@ vs. bug-diffutils@ problem.
I've adjusted it in both README and in the texinfo documentation
from which that web page is generated. See attached.

The original problem with diff-vs-diff3 in the man page, it is fixed
as far as I can see:

$ man man/diff3.1|col -b|tail|grep info.diff
info diff3

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