On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is
intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the
following:
copy a b
that
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
This part does sound like a bug. Perhaps this diff optimization
should be suppressed, since in cases like this, ./a and .\a have
effectively different content.
If anything, you would want to just add a test to the stat-comparison
code to check that both files
Brian Dessent wrote:
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files,
one with and one without a directory specifier:
diff a someDir\b
then all lines are reported as different.
Whereas when both have a directory specifier:
diff .\a someDir\b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have attached a cygcheck, though I am afraid it's rather large.
As suspected, you have textmode mounts -- see Igor's response which was
spot on. To summarize, using '\' as a path seperator bypasses all of
Cygwin's processing since it signals a native windows
Thanks for the explanation. However I don't quite understand this is what one
would want.
With regard to paths I would expect one to want:
A Windows or Posix style path is converted to one internal path format.
After this conversion the behaviour is independent of whatever the
original format
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is
intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the
following:
copy a b
that then:
diff ./a .\b
says that the files are completely different, whereas:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. However I don't quite understand this is
what one would want.
I'll let someone else address most of your points except one:
It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is
intended that when I
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:55:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
I don't know enough about Cygwin history or internals to say why this is
the case. Someone who knows more about it would have to explain it.
And as you've seen it can lead to confusing situations.
I'm not sure how an explanation
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:55:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is
intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the
following:
copy a b
that then:
Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files,
one with and one without a directory specifier:
diff a someDir\b
then all lines are reported as different.
Whereas when both have a directory specifier:
diff .\a someDir\b
output is normal.
(Filenames, argument order or using
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files,
one with and one without a directory specifier:
diff a someDir\b
then all lines are reported as different.
Whereas when both have a directory specifier:
diff .\a someDir\b
output is normal.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files,
one with and one without a directory specifier:
diff a someDir\b
then all lines are reported as different.
Whereas when both have a directory specifier:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
I cannot reproduce this, either from a bash prompt or from cmd using
your .bat file:
I can reproduce this (even under bash). All you need is a textmode mount
and files with CRLF line endings.
Upon
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