Greetings, Csaba Raduly! > Andrey Repin wrote: >>>>> When I'm comparing them with my usual macro >>>>> diff -bdu -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" -I "\$Revision.*\$" -I >>>>> "\$Date.*\$" -I "\$Author.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- '1/backup.bat' >>>>> 'backup.bat' >>>>> It telling me that $Id$ lines are differ. >>>>> But when I remove the "@echo off" from second file, it telling me >>>>> that files are "identical" (the expected result).
> Did you get something similar to the following ? Practically, I get exactly this result. > --- 1/backup.bat 2010-10-01 09:55:59.070190500 +0200 > +++ backup.bat 2010-10-01 09:56:19.112194500 +0200 > @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ > -rem $Id: backup.bat,v 1.1 2007/07/17 01:53:30 Daemon Exp $ > +...@echo off > +rem $Id: backup.bat 10 2010-09-30 01:22:14Z anrdaemon $ > rar a -ag-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM -- MinerTimer @MinerTimer.list > I suspect that the -I switch told diff "do not start a difference if > the line matches" rather than "consider this line to always match". > This behavio(u)r is counter-intuitive, but is probably required; > otherwise the generated diff would be unusable for patch(1). I was thinking the same way. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 01.10.2010, <17:59> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple