Hi, On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Wincent Colaiuta schrieb: > > El 17/12/2007, a las 12:57, Johannes Schindelin escribi?: > > > >> Hmm. There is some chicken-and-egg problem here (I read the thread, but > >> did not really see a problem, as I assumed that _other_ tests would > >> assure > >> that "git diff --no-index" works as expected). > >> > >> But as at least one released version of GNU diff has a pretty serious > >> bug, > >> I would rather not rely too much on diff. (BTW this was the reason I > >> wanted --no-index so badly.) > >> > >> So yeah, the second "diff" cannot be "git diff". Maybe "cmp", but not > >> "git diff". > > > > Well cmp would be fine as well, seeing all we want is a boolean "is > > this the same or not" answer. (I'm not familiar with the GNU diff bug > > you speak of, but was it so bad that it couldn't even get *that* > > answer right?) > > Heh, there's at least one distribution out there (Suse 10.1) that comes > with a *cmp* that doesn't get that answer right if its output is > connected to /dev/null, which is the case when you simply 'make test'. Yeah. That's what it was. I even posted a patch to GNU diff, only to find out that it was already fixed in CVS. Sigh. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
