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Re: FileMerge ineffective comparisons

Subject: Re: FileMerge ineffective comparisons
From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:00:15 -0700
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On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Jeff Birac wrote:

FileMerge is not comparing properly different versions of source code.

I modify an arbitrary line of code, and then "compare" it to an earlier revision of the file. FileMerge reports 1 difference between the files, but it just highlights the first line of the files (not where the difference is actually). I can modify several arbitrary lines, yet FileMerge's comparison still reports only 1 difference (the first line).

Your files use CR line endings. FileMerge only understands LF line endings (yea, after lo so many years). It uses Unix 'diff' as its back end, which has the same behavior.

Chris

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