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> GNU diff -x on win does exclude patterns with back slash (\) or slash	(/)
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> Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:21:40 -0700
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> Hi,
> Using 2.7-cygwin-990830 on Win XP SP2
> having problems running a directory comparison with excluded paths if
> the exclude path involves using back slash
> for example if i run
> diff -u -q -r -x foo.c <src path> <dest path>
> (foo.c is missing from the sub-folder bar that is under dest)
> foo.c get excluded
> but if I run
> diff -u -q -r -x bar\diff.c  <src path> <dest path>
> foo.c does not get excluded
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> Thanks
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