From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:31:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve quality of ln's diagnostics.
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~1334
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=114492b82693a8cd9e57194a6a5f5fde0c8c016a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Improve quality of ln's diagnostics.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ce8f58214a..3846d44359 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Changes in behavior
 
+  ln now uses different (and we hope clearer) diagnostics when it fails.
+  ln -v now acts more like FreeBSD, so it generates output only when
+  successful and the output is easier to parse.
+
   ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', not --time-style='posix-long-iso'.
   However, the 'locale' time style now behaves like 'posix-long-iso'
   if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change