[arch-general] diff is going nuts

Henrik Danielsson h.danielsson at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 13:53:00 UTC 2015


There are lots of trailing whitespaces on those lines (looking at the raw
email).
Retry with "diff -w" to ignore whitespace diffs.

2015-03-22 14:47 GMT+01:00 Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for some time past I often need to replace diff with meld, since diff is
> > going nuts.
> >
>
>
> Did you check with hexdump, in case you have MS-DOS newlines,
> different unicode spaces or other artifacts in the file?
>
> cheers!
> mar77i
>


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