diff issue
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@freemail.ru
Fri Oct 1 14:05:00 GMT 2010
Greetings, Csaba Raduly!
> Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> When I'm comparing them with my usual macro
>>>>> diff -bdu -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" -I "\$Revision.*\$" -I
>>>>> "\$Date.*\$" -I "\$Author.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- '1/backup.bat'
>>>>> 'backup.bat'
>>>>> It telling me that $Id$ lines are differ.
>>>>> But when I remove the "@echo off" from second file, it telling me
>>>>> that files are "identical" (the expected result).
> Did you get something similar to the following ?
Practically, I get exactly this result.
> --- 1/backup.bat 2010-10-01 09:55:59.070190500 +0200
> +++ backup.bat 2010-10-01 09:56:19.112194500 +0200
> @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
> -rem $Id: backup.bat,v 1.1 2007/07/17 01:53:30 Daemon Exp $
> +@echo off
> +rem $Id: backup.bat 10 2010-09-30 01:22:14Z anrdaemon $
> rar a -ag-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM -- MinerTimer @MinerTimer.list
> I suspect that the -I switch told diff "do not start a difference if
> the line matches" rather than "consider this line to always match".
> This behavio(u)r is counter-intuitive, but is probably required;
> otherwise the generated diff would be unusable for patch(1).
I was thinking the same way.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 01.10.2010, <17:59>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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