#246202 cmp: verbosity needs to be expanded to cover varying levels of detail

Package:
diffutils
Source:
diffutils
Description:
File comparison utilities
Submitter:
"Jim W. Jaszewski"
Date:
2011-10-16 15:51:12 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#246202#5
Date:
2004-04-27 19:08:12 UTC
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To:
IMO in cmp there should be varying levels of verbosity available, so
users can see just how comparisons are going; i.e.  -l can be
supplemented with -ll, with -lll ...etc. As things stand now (unless I
am missing something) "verbosity" is a pretty terse matter with cmp...


P.S.: Maybe also change -l to -v (and change -v to -V).
What's Debian policy on switch standards, anyway?
;-P
#246202#8
Date:
2004-06-27 18:06:04 UTC
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To:
Hello.

Received this from the debian bug system:


Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-6
Severity: wishlist


IMO in cmp there should be varying levels of verbosity available, so
users can see just how comparisons are going; i.e.  -l can be
supplemented with -ll, with -lll ...etc. As things stand now (unless I
am missing something) "verbosity" is a pretty terse matter with cmp...


P.S.: Maybe also change -l to -v (and change -v to -V).
What's Debian policy on switch standards, anyway?
;-P