Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

[Larry Jones]

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