Bug#893324: diffoscope: terminology used in docs about exclusion options

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Tue Mar 20 02:20:45 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 07:46 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:

> "Exclude/ignore" doesnt read nicely. Given the option is called
> 'exclude...' already, we could probably just explain that this causing
> 'ignore', so people will still find it using both terms.

How about removing the "/ignore" and adding sentences like these:

Use this option to ignore files based on their names.
Use this option to disable commands that use a lot of resources.
Use this option to ignore permissions, timestamps, xattrs etc.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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