From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: diff is broken 22 Jun 1998 18:43:32 -0700 Message-ID: <19980622114752.14029.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Tim Smith Cc: gw32 If you wish to have a version of RCS, diff, patch, and others that handle the \r\n or \n properly and don't mind that you can't use the cygwin mounted directory I suggest you take a look at the binaries in the package named mingw32-sup.1.0.tar.gz I have located at ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/porters/Boyd_Earnie/ These binaries are win32 native versions that I ported using mingw32. ---Tim Smith wrote: > > I recently noticed my RCS files are bigger than I thought they should be. > The problem is that when I check in a revision, it treats is as if I have > changed every line. > > For example, here is an extract from rlog for a file that started out as > ten line. In revision 1.2, I inserted a line. In revision 1.3, I deleted > that line. > > >revision 1.3 > >date: 1998/06/19 04:05:20; author: tzs; state: Exp; lines: +10 -11 > >*** empty log message *** > >---------------------------- > >revision 1.2 > >date: 1998/06/19 04:05:14; author: tzs; state: Exp; lines: +11 -10 > >*** empty log message *** > >---------------------------- > >revision 1.1 > >date: 1998/06/19 04:05:02; author: tzs; state: Exp; > >Initial revision > > The problem is with diff. If I replace the gnu-win32 diff.exe with diff.exe > from the PC port of RCS, all is happy. (I've got a link to the PC port of > RCS on my web page at www.halcyon.com/tzs/, along with patches to get it to > compile with Watcom C 11.0 or Visual C 5.0, in case anyone wants a diff to > replace the gnu-win32 one until it is fixed). Aside from this, I've been > using B19.1 for a month or two now as my command shell for Windows > development under NT, and it is great. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix my bloated RCS files? I > can write a script to find all the revisions and their dates and comments > from the rlog output and then check them all out one at a time and check > them in to a new RCS file, but if someone already has something to do this, > I'd rather use that than roll my own. > > --Tim Smith > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Please, research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives first. http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Searchable Mail Archives) Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://dvpraktikum.informatik.uni-koeln.de:3232/ (Cygwin32 Porting Project) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.downloadwizard.com/ak/gnu-win32/bash.html (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Package Porting Notes) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David fox - RPM packages) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if you're using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools has lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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