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Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> This part does sound like a bug. Perhaps this diff optimization
> should be suppressed, since in cases like this, ./a and .\a have
> effectively different content.
If anything, you would want to just add a test to the stat-comparison
code to check that both files are opened in the same mode, text/binary.
But really all that does is let you diff a file to itself, in which case
you know the result already, that every line differs because of
different line endings. And I don't really see that being a useful
feature.
But really this is rather irrelevent because the diffutils maintainer
(cfg) has already said he has no intention to change diff to fix
improper use of it.
Brian
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