[Merge] disable diff3 on win32
Aaron Bentley
aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Thu May 4 13:57:08 BST 2006
John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
>>This patch disables diff3 on win32, because typical diff3
>>implementations on win32 do not properly preserve line endings.
> Doesn't diff3 support the --binary flag (same as diff & patch). I
> remember dealing with all of this for Arch.
No, it doesn't. At least, 2.8.7 doesn't.
> 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.
We have to specifically disable diff3 because it will mangle
line-endings, and I don't want that happening to users. If we disable
it without disabling the tests, we'll get test case failures.
Aaron
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