Re: [PATCH] Workaround for strange cmp bug

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2006-08-10 18:20:36
Hi,

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > The cmp(1) (cmp (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7) distributed with openSUSE 
> > > 10.1 has a subtle "shortcoming":
> 
> Okay, I will try to fix the distribution. I only thought it was worthwhile 
> spreading the workaround for other poor souls.

Got it. The problem is that diffutils-2.8.7-15 and -18 (which seem to be 
the same...) have cherry-picked a "fix" from CVS (cmp-eof-dev-null.diff), 
which is wrong. It was fixed in diffutils CVS, and I submitted a bug 
report in openSUSEÂ's bugzilla.

So, look out for diffutils-2.8.7-15 on openSUSE (although it only breaks 
the _tests_, not git itself!).

Ciao,
Dscho

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