Issues

• diff: return the difference status with -y

  uutils/diffutils#290 · Filter by author SichenLiang opened on Sep 28, 2026

• diff: two large files abort with a ~100 TB allocation

  uutils/diffutils#287 · Filter by author leeewee opened on Sep 24, 2026

• diff: -t --tabsize=<huge> aborts in do_expand_tabs

  uutils/diffutils#286 · Filter by author leeewee opened on Sep 24, 2026

• diff&cmp not suitable to be called as library functions.

  uutils/diffutils#280 · Filter by author gmatht opened on Aug 31, 2026

• sdiff: implement the | marker for changed lines

  uutils/diffutils#272 · Filter by author sami-daniel opened on Aug 15, 2026

• diff: -y draws the gutter marker at the wrong column unless the gutter is 3 or 4 columns wide

  uutils/diffutils#269 · Filter by author sami-daniel opened on Aug 13, 2026

• context hunk merging in diff

  uutils/diffutils#268 · Filter by author WayneD opened on Aug 9, 2026

• diff: -y --tabsize=<huge> overflows the column arithmetic (overflow-checks only)

  uutils/diffutils#264 · Filter by author leeewee opened on Jul 17, 2026

• diff panics (into_string().unwrap()) on a non-UTF-8 argument ending in --width=N

  uutils/diffutils#247 · Filter by author leeewee opened on Jun 16, 2026

• diff panics on an oversized inline context count (-c/-u/-C/-U): parse overflow and capacity overflow

  uutils/diffutils#245 · Filter by author leeewee opened on Jun 10, 2026
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• Git Tag str should not contain the prefix v

  uutils/diffutils#239 · Filter by author emmettlu opened on Jun 6, 2026

• Allow building individual binaries

  uutils/diffutils#232 · Filter by author oech3 opened on May 16, 2026
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• Let utilities identify themselves as being part of uutils in --help and --version

  uutils/diffutils#222 · Filter by author terrahornbeck378 opened on May 1, 2026
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• cmp::parse_params exits the process on --help instead of returning

  uutils/diffutils#220 · Filter by author pocopepe opened on Apr 21, 2026

• SIGPIPE panics

  uutils/diffutils#192 · Filter by author oech3 opened on Mar 8, 2026
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• cmp argument parser rewrite

  uutils/diffutils#177 · Filter by author GunterSchmidt opened on Feb 27, 2026

• diffutils > /dev/full panics

  uutils/diffutils#165 · Filter by author oech3 opened on Jan 29, 2026
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• Support --recursive flag

  uutils/diffutils#162 · Filter by author kormide opened on Jan 24, 2026

• Parallel diff and cmp on binary files?

  uutils/diffutils#121 · Filter by author pauschuu opened on May 31, 2025
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• Missing manpage

  documentationgood first issue
  uutils/diffutils#120 · Filter by author woodsb02 opened on May 19, 2025
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• Consider using an external argument parser

  uutils/diffutils#97 · Filter by author oSoMoN opened on Sep 30, 2024
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• How to approach --help implementation

  uutils/diffutils#96 · Filter by author kov opened on Sep 30, 2024
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• Some tests require ed and fail if it is not installed

  uutils/diffutils#39 · Filter by author cakebaker opened on Apr 1, 2024
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• sdiff command is not implemented

  good first issue
  uutils/diffutils#16 · Filter by author oSoMoN opened on Feb 18, 2024
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• diff3 command is not implemented

  good first issue
  uutils/diffutils#15 · Filter by author oSoMoN opened on Feb 18, 2024
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