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Re: "make test" fails with current HEAD

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 18, 2005, 08:03 UTC
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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:
>>> Files /dev/null and b/file3 differ
>
> Of course, with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 the situation is worse ...

And at this point it becomes more and more tempting to have our own internal diff generator, without relying on external diff.

A midway compromise solution would be to detect if either file is binary ourselves and not to call diff but always say "Binary files differ".

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  20. Do not show .exe in git command list.Junio C Hamano, Nov 18, 2005

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