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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:56:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: diff inserts tab into header ?
From: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com>
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xerces8 wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
>>> I discovered this when trying to send a patch to a project and
>>> they rejected it because of this tab chars.
>> Are you sure this is the case? Can you send the exact message they sent
>> you when they rejected the patch?
>
> Sure, they said this:
>
>>> Which version of diffutils do you use?
>>> How come there is a tab after file name in the header?

  They must be using a custom version or something strange like that.  The
TAB is placed there by the routine 'print_context_label()' in context.c, you
can view the CVS history at

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/diffutils/src/context.c?root=diffutils&view=log

and it's been right there since version 1.1, seventeen years ago (see line 46).

  So AFAICT GNU diff has /always/ done this.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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