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Date:	Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:12:12 -0800
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir
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JPMCYAFVMHSL AT spammotel DOT com wrote:

> Have attached a cygcheck, though I am afraid it's rather large.

As suspected, you have textmode mounts -- see Igor's response which was
spot on.  To summarize, using '\' as a path seperator bypasses all of
Cygwin's processing since it signals a native windows path/filename.  So
if you have textmode mounts and files with \r\n line endings, and only
one argument has a '\', then that file will not go through Cygwin's line
ending translation while the other will, and thus diff thinks every line
differs.  The solution is to use "--strip-trailing-cr" or alternatively,
either use a '\' in both arguments or not at all.  "It's Not A Bug It's
A Feature(tm)"

Brian

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