external_diff should not assume diff is gnu diff
Bug #314254 reported by
Martin Pool
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bazaar |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Bug Description
affects bzr
tags diff bsd
status confirmed
importance medium
bzr diff when running an external diff assumes it understands the gnu
option --binary. bsd diff does not.
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Martin
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 02:52 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> affects bzr
> tags diff bsd
> status confirmed
> importance medium
>
> bzr diff when running an external diff assumes it understands the gnu
> option --binary. bsd diff does not.
I'm not sure this is a bug; its reasonable to depend on certain
capabilities in external tools - bzr doesn't claim to need 'posix diff'.
-Rob www.robertcolli ns.net/ keys.txt>.
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