Re: [PATCH] Workaround for strange cmp bug

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 10, 2006, 08:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608101016590.13885@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608091309590.1800@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > The cmp(1) (cmp (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7) distributed with openSUSE 
> > > 10.1 has a subtle "shortcoming":
> 
> Okay, I will try to fix the distribution. I only thought it was worthwhile 
> spreading the workaround for other poor souls.

Got it. The problem is that diffutils-2.8.7-15 and -18 (which seem to be the same...) have cherry-picked a "fix" from CVS (cmp-eof-dev-null.diff), which is wrong. It was fixed in diffutils CVS, and I submitted a bug report in openSUSEÂ's bugzilla.

So, look out for diffutils-2.8.7-15 on openSUSE (although it only breaks the _tests_, not git itself!).

Ciao, Dscho