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Re: diff --brief and --binary
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: diff --brief and --binary |
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Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:25:35 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: JT Williams <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:46:04 -0500
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> diff --q (--brief) forces a binary comparison.
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> This is confusing, because one doesn't expect -q (a reporting option)
> to influence the type of comparison (binary/text).
Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix this in the next version of GNU diff.