Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <422985FC.85D8AFE4@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:12:12 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir References: <1110016059.JPMCYAFVMHSL@spammotel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com JPMCYAFVMHSL@spammotel.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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/