[Merge] disable diff3 on win32

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu May 4 13:41:11 BST 2006


Aaron Bentley wrote:
> This patch disables diff3 on win32, because typical diff3
> implementations on win32 do not properly preserve line endings.
> 
> The lack of diff3 isn't very significant, because we still provide our
> default native python implementation Merge3, as well as knit/weave merging.
> 
> Aaron
> 

Doesn't diff3 support the --binary flag (same as diff & patch). I
remember dealing with all of this for Arch.

I realize there is no "native" diff3 on Windows anyway. You have to
install it in some non-standard method. But I don't think you have to
specifically disable the tests.

John
=:->


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