Dennis Stosberg wrote : > I have seen this test failing on FreeBSD 5.3, too. FreeBSD comes with a > version of "diff" which does not add the "\ No newline at end of file" > remark. Maybe your "diff" is simply too old. In that case, it's not a > serious problem because Git uses its own internal diff implementation. You are exactly right. My "diff" is a bit too old. It was 2.7 and the latest stable is 2.8.1 which fixes the newline problem. > The intention of this test is to test git-apply and not the system's > "diff", so perhaps it should bring along all its patches and not rely > on the system's "diff" to generate them... That seems like a good suggestion if it is as you wrote. Thanks for the information regarding diff and git. Shalom, Michael - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html