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Re: git-1.4.0 make problems

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MSMichael Somos <somos@grail.cba.csuohio.edu>
Date
Jun 17, 2006, 14:46 UTC
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<200606171446.k5HEkZAx006686@grail.cba.csuohio.edu>
Dennis  Stosberg wrote :
> I have seen this test failing on FreeBSD 5.3, too.  FreeBSD comes with a
> version of "diff" which does not add the "\ No newline at end of file"
> remark.  Maybe your "diff" is simply too old.  In that case, it's not a
> serious problem because Git uses its own internal diff implementation.

You are exactly right. My "diff" is a bit too old. It was 2.7 and the latest stable is 2.8.1 which fixes the newline problem.

> The intention of this test is to test git-apply and not the system's
> "diff", so perhaps it should bring along all its patches and not rely
> on the system's "diff" to generate them...

That seems like a good suggestion if it is as you wrote. Thanks for the information regarding diff and git. Shalom, Michael

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  2. Make t4101-apply-nonl bring along its patchesDennis Stosberg, Jun 17, 2006

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