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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff
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Scott Bronson |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:12:59 -0800 |
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 18:39, Michael Teichgräber wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > After reading previous posts on this mailing list's archive,
> > I find a thread on this subject. Still I'm confused: what is
> > supposed to be diff's ``correct behaviour''? (i.e. issuing
> > the marker ``\ No newline at end of file'' or not?)
>
> In case the last lines of both compared files are part of a hunk, lack
> newlines, and are equal (and it seems, only then), diff 2.7 (e.g.)
> will not output "\ No newline at eof", what seems to be wrong.
>
> Diff 2.8.1 passes the test. If you are running Debian woody, you
> could build and install diff_2.8.1-6 from the unstable branch.
Aparently some people have already backported it. Hopefully
it's that simple.
diff 2.8.1-1.hygl (i386)
deb http://coll.virtuos.uos.de woody-backport/binary/
deb-src http://coll.virtuos.uos.de woody-backport/source/
http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=diff&submit=&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all