2012/9/30 Joachim Schmitz <[email protected]>: > Using (the system provided) /bin/printf instead shows a 0 size, so you seem > to be right about a missbehavoir. > >> problem is not with patch itself. Does "printf '\1' > target" work >> better? > > Yes!
Well, git seems to check for null bytes to decide if a file is a "binary" file; it would poduce a "normal" diff with the non-zero character. I'll just check for the printf misbehavor and skip this test if needed. Thanks, Andreas
