Today the diffs are back.  It has been three of four check-ins.  Maybe I
just wasn't patient enough ;-)  Btw, I forgot to mention I'm using
version [1d93222627] 2011-03-01.

Jesse

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:26 -0700, Bill Thiede wrote:
> I had a similar problem and realized it was because I had a single character
> that was considered 'binary' by fossil's diff'ing algorithm and got the
> behavior you're seeing.  My local copy of fossil has LENGTH_MASK_SZ set to 24
> and the following patch (previously sent to the list) to alleviate the problem
> locally.  I'd be interested to know if it fixes your problem.
> 
> Bill
> 
> --- src/doc.c
> +++ src/doc.c
> @@ -58,11 +58,12 @@
>    
>    x = (const unsigned char*)blob_buffer(pBlob);
>    n = blob_size(pBlob);
>    for(i=0; i<n; i++){
>      unsigned char c = x[i];
> -    if( c<=0x1f && isBinary[c] ){
> +    /* If a NULL byte is found, mark as binary */
> +    if( !c ) {
>        break;
>      }
>    }
>    if( i>=n ){
>      return 0;   /* Plain text */
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:16:31PM -0400, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have checked in some perl files that had some very large one line
> > blobs.  These blobs were much longer than the LENGTH_MASK (8192)
> > characters.  At that point I got the subject message every time I
> > changed the file and diffed it.  I have since removed the one line blobs
> > and have confirmed that the longest line in the file is less than the
> > LENGTH_MASK.  
> >  
> > $ awk '{ if( length > L ) { L=length} }END{ print L}' file.pm
> > 2805
> > $ wc -l file.pm
> > 2566 file.pm
> > 
> > However, it still gives me the subject message.  Everything else is
> > fine, I just can't see the diffs.  I'm assuming this is because of
> > what's already in the repository.  
> > 
> > I am considering removing it from the repository and re-adding it,
> > however, I haven't read up on this enough yet.  Is this the best
> > approach or is there something simpler/safer?
> > 
> > Jesse
> > 
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