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Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:12:12 -0800
- Subject: Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <1110016059.JPMCYAFVMHSL@spammotel.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
JPMCYAFVMHSL@spammotel.com wrote:
> Have attached a cygcheck, though I am afraid it's rather large.
As suspected, you have textmode mounts -- see Igor's response which was
spot on. To summarize, using '\' as a path seperator bypasses all of
Cygwin's processing since it signals a native windows path/filename. So
if you have textmode mounts and files with \r\n line endings, and only
one argument has a '\', then that file will not go through Cygwin's line
ending translation while the other will, and thus diff thinks every line
differs. The solution is to use "--strip-trailing-cr" or alternatively,
either use a '\' in both arguments or not at all. "It's Not A Bug It's
A Feature(tm)"
Brian
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