From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:03:13 GMT
Subject: Re: "make test" fails with current HEAD
Message-ID: <7vbr0imlha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051118075117.GK31613@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

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 difer".