Re: diff3 bug?

[Eric Blake]

On 04/14/2010 06:53 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>>From my point of view diff3 doesn't work properly under windows. At
> least from 2.8.7 version.

Where did you get diff3 pre-compiled for windows?  Perhaps you may be
better off asking port-specific questions to the person who made your port.

I would recommend using cygwin, which has a reasonably up-to-date port,
and uses POSIX-style notations rather than the problematic \ to make the
experience more Unix-like.

> 
> 1. It fails if I specify option like "--diff-program C:\Temp\diff.exe",
> diff.exe exists in C:\Temp

Most likely, this is a quoting bug on your part, for not using the shell
correctly.  Are you using cmd or bash?  And if it is indeed a quoting
issue, then the problem occurs before diff3 has even started up to parse
its command line arguments.

> 
> 2. If file name contains signs like "(" diff3 also fails.

Likewise.

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