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Re: [PATCH] MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...

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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID
<200903072218.39087.j6t@kdbg.org>
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On Samstag, 7. März 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Should this go to 'maint'?

I don't think that's necessary. It fixes only that someone literally writes on the Windows command line

   git diff --no-index nul foo.c
when on Unix one would have written
   git diff --no-index /dev/null foo.c
In practice, only the test suite does this ;)
-- Hannes
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 6 of 6 in “MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...”
  1. MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...Johannes Schindelin, Mar 7, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtMar 7, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 7, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtMar 7, 2009

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