Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Mark Levedahl wrote:
>
>> Subtests 6, 7, and 9 rely test that merge-recursive correctly
>> ignores whitespace when so directed. Change the particular whitespace
>> sequences to be ones that are not known line endings so the whitespace
>> is not changed when being extracted by line oriented grep.
>
> merge-recursive needs to be able to deal with \r at EOL, too, so if at
> all possible I would prefer to see the test fixed to pass on Cygwin
> some other way.
Maybe use -U/--binary option to grep? Indeed, if you look at the top of
that test file, you will see:
test_have_prereq SED_STRIPS_CR && SED_OPTIONS=-b
test_have_prereq MINGW && export GREP_OPTIONS=-U
which may explain why it works for me on MinGW, but not why it works on
cygwin 1.5.
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
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