t4015-diff-whitespace broken on cygwin's bash

Alex Riesen· Oct 13, 2006, 09:12 UTC · lore

It seem to cut off the last CR from text-here. I.e.

  cat <<EOF >x
  ...
  CR at end^M
  EOF

becomes just "CR at end" in the output file, that is ^M (aka CR) stripped. The attached workaround worked for me, but is, as usual, too ugly to sign it off.

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 13, 2006, 12:56 UTC · re: Alex Riesen · lore

Re: t4015-diff-whitespace broken on cygwin's bash

Hi,

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> It seem to cut off the last CR from text-here. I.e.
> 
>  cat <<EOF >x
>  ...
>  CR at end^M
>  EOF
> 
> becomes just "CR at end" in the output file, that is ^M (aka CR) stripped.

I can confirm this problem. Strange. I always thought that "cat << EOF" was meant to copy verbatim. I think it is a bug in cygwin.

The only sensible workaround I can think of is to put the files into a directory t4015/ like t4013 does.

Ciao, Dscho