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Re: diff inserts tab into header ?
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:56:10 +0000
- Subject: Re: diff inserts tab into header ?
- References: <WorldClient-F200902021754.AA54240210@butn.net>
xerces8 wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
>>> I discovered this when trying to send a patch to a project and
>>> they rejected it because of this tab chars.
>> Are you sure this is the case? Can you send the exact message they sent
>> you when they rejected the patch?
>
> Sure, they said this:
>
>>> Which version of diffutils do you use?
>>> How come there is a tab after file name in the header?
They must be using a custom version or something strange like that. The
TAB is placed there by the routine 'print_context_label()' in context.c, you
can view the CVS history at
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/diffutils/src/context.c?root=diffutils&view=log
and it's been right there since version 1.1, seventeen years ago (see line 46).
So AFAICT GNU diff has /always/ done this.
cheers,
DaveK
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