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diff has NUL instead of /dev/null
From: |
Paul Edwards |
Subject: |
diff has NUL instead of /dev/null |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:42:48 +1000 |
Hi all.
I am using CVS 1.11.9 which came with Cygwin.
I'm not sure if the version of CVS changed, but
when I was doing an rdiff, I used to (in 2011) get:
Index: hercules/README.S380
diff -c /dev/null hercules/README.S380:1.13
*** /dev/null Mon Dec 12 18:20:30 2011
--- hercules/README.S380 Thu Mar 11 00:34:48 2010
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,43 ----
(note the /dev/null above)
But now I am getting:
Index: hercules/README.S380
diff -c nul hercules/README.S380:1.16
*** nul Tue Feb 25 02:59:38 2020
--- hercules/README.S380 Wed Oct 02 09:43:01 2019
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,125 ----
(note the "nul" above)
I don't think remote "patch" programs can cope
with the word "nul" instead of "/dev/null", and
instead complain that no file called "nul" can be
found.
Who is misbehaving?
Thanks. Paul.
- diff has NUL instead of /dev/null,
Paul Edwards <=