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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Malcolm Rowe <ma...@farside.org.uk> on 2007/09/01 22:30:04 UTC

Re: svn 1.4.5 bug with diff on binary files

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:15:47PM -0700, Wade Carpenter wrote:
> I was just noticing that there is a difference in the output when
> using the internal and external diff because the internal diff, that's
> all.
> 

That's because you've created a binary file and then told Subversion
that it's text (by removing the svn:mime-type property).  Subversion
believes you and shows the (meaningless) diff, but GNU diff isn't quite
so simple, and tells you you're diffing a binary file.

Regards,
Malcolm