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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
