Re: git reveals a bug in (some versions) BSD diff

2005-08-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: I'm seeing this on a standard os/x 10.3.9 install which seems to have an old, but still GNU based, diff. $ which diff /usr/bin/diff $ diff --version diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7 That is exactly the same as with 10.2.8. [...] * FAIL

git reveals a bug in (some versions) BSD diff

2005-08-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, big was my surprise when my daily routine of git pull make test failed. git bisect revealed that commit 8e832e: String comparison of test is done with '=', not '=='. was the culprit. But it isn't. The version of diff present on my iBook (OS 10.2.8) does not work properly in this case:

Re: git reveals a bug in (some versions) BSD diff

2005-08-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd prefer to deprecate that diff program by telling so in the test. Something along the lines blabla. If this fails, chances are you have a borked diff. Try GNU diff... Wouldn't it give the people with broken diff a false impression that their