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Bug diff: no difference between 0 byte files and no files.
From: |
J.C. Pizarro |
Subject: |
Bug diff: no difference between 0 byte files and no files. |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:22:38 +0200 |
Hi, diff v2.8.1 and v2.8.7 ignore 0 byte files, and it's a bug.
The program diff doesn't see the difference between 0 byte file and no file.
mkdir dir1 dir2 2> /dev/null ; cat /dev/null > dir1/empty.out ; \
tree dir1 dir2 ; echo "Differences between dir1 and dir2 from diff:" ; \
diff -Nduar dir1 dir2 ; rm -f dir1/empty.out ; rmdir dir1 dir2
If dir1 contains 0 byte files, and dir2 no files, the problem comes when i
patch the dir1_to_dir2.patch and in dir2 appear 0 byte files instead of no
files. The elimination of 0 byte files should have ocurred here but it didn't.
J.C. sincerely yours :)
- Bug diff: no difference between 0 byte files and no files.,
J.C. Pizarro <=