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Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb
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Larry Jones |
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Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:47:19 -0400 (EDT) |
Eric Siegerman writes:
>
> Another possibility is that "cvs diff" might ignore the -kb
> setting, and just do whatever vanilla "diff" would do given the
> same files; which is, to do the diff as text-mode if the files
> "look like" text, and as binary-mode if they "look like" binary.
That's the one -- CVS uses the -k setting when checking out the two
revisions, but then just calls diff and lets it do its thing.
-Larry Jones
Talk about someone easy to exploit! -- Calvin