v0.3.6

• Make --compare run two ordinary walks in parallel and compare their expression matches by
  relative path. It no longer silently enables Git ignores, skips VCS metadata, forces tree sorting,
  rejects expressions and file roots, or overrides -P / -H / -L symlink traversal.
• Make release installation instructions explicit for both supported platforms and both binaries,
  verifying each download before installation and generating its matching manual page. A generated
  man page now uses the binary's invocation name, including xff_full or an xff symlink. Downloads
  use a unique temporary directory and clean it on exit instead of polluting the caller's directory.
• Publish xff and xff_full symmetrically: each has a directly downloadable, fully stripped
  executable and a matching .tar.zst containing that executable and its separate debug file.

Install

Run either or both install blocks: the lean binary is installed as xff, and the all-features
binary as xff_full. Ensure ${HOME}/.local/bin is in PATH; the generated manual pages are
installed below ${HOME}/.local/share/man.

Release files without an archive suffix, such as xff-linux-x86_64, are the actual stripped
platform executables and can be downloaded and installed directly. Each matching .tar.zst
contains that same stripped executable together with its separate debug-information file.

Install on Linux x86_64:

XFF_VERSION=v0.3.6
XFF_PATH_BIN="${HOME}/.local/bin"
XFF_PATH_MAN="${HOME}/.local/share/man/man1"
XFF_PATH_TEMP="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/xff-install.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -rf "${XFF_PATH_TEMP}"' EXIT
mkdir -p "${XFF_PATH_BIN}"
mkdir -p "${XFF_PATH_MAN}"
cd "${XFF_PATH_TEMP}"
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/SHA256SUMS"

# Install xff.
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/xff-linux-x86_64"
grep ' xff-linux-x86_64$' SHA256SUMS | sha256sum -c -
install -m 0755 xff-linux-x86_64 "${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff"
"${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff" --pager=never --man > "${XFF_PATH_MAN}/xff.1"

# Install xff_full.
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/xff_full-linux-x86_64"
grep ' xff_full-linux-x86_64$' SHA256SUMS | sha256sum -c -
install -m 0755 xff_full-linux-x86_64 "${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff_full"
"${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff_full" --pager=never --man > "${XFF_PATH_MAN}/xff_full.1"

Install on macOS:

XFF_VERSION=v0.3.6
XFF_PATH_BIN="${HOME}/.local/bin"
XFF_PATH_MAN="${HOME}/.local/share/man/man1"
XFF_PATH_TEMP="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/xff-install.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -rf "${XFF_PATH_TEMP}"' EXIT
mkdir -p "${XFF_PATH_BIN}"
mkdir -p "${XFF_PATH_MAN}"
cd "${XFF_PATH_TEMP}"
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/SHA256SUMS"

# Install xff.
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/xff-macos-arm64"
grep ' xff-macos-arm64$' SHA256SUMS | shasum -a 256 -c -
install -m 0755 xff-macos-arm64 "${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff"
"${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff" --pager=never --man > "${XFF_PATH_MAN}/xff.1"

# Install xff_full.
curl -fLO "https://github.com/mboworks/xff/releases/download/${XFF_VERSION}/xff_full-macos-arm64"
grep ' xff_full-macos-arm64$' SHA256SUMS | shasum -a 256 -c -
install -m 0755 xff_full-macos-arm64 "${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff_full"
"${XFF_PATH_BIN}/xff_full" --pager=never --man > "${XFF_PATH_MAN}/xff_full.1"

Release resources

• Full HTML reference
• Raw reference (XFF.md)
• Coverage report