Hi, On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Johannes Schindelin: > > From my diff man page: > > > > -- snip -- > > DIAGNOSTICS > > An exit status of 0 means no differences were found, 1 means some > > differences were found, and 2 means trouble. > > -- snap -- > > > > The exit value 2 is ambiguous for at least one version of GNU diff. > > > AFAIK, We have > 0 - no difference > 1 - produced a reasonable diff > 1 - produced a bad diff because binary stuff starts > after 4096-or-whatever bytes and diff didn't notice > 2 - didn't produce a diff -- binary files differ > 2 - something else broke > > Right now we simply don't consider the second -2- case, because we just > successfully wrote the two files in question; there's not *that* much > that can fail after that. The second -1- case is sufficiently rare too. > > So I still think a "Just write a 'Binary files FOO and BAR differ' line > if the exit status is 2" rule would at least fix the current bug with > diff 2.8.7. Dunno. Am I the only one with an odd feeling about that? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Nov 18 22:05:37 2005
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