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Re: Why doesn't FileMerge work?
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Re: Why doesn't FileMerge work?


  • Subject: Re: Why doesn't FileMerge work?
  • From: Jim Prouty <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:38:02 -0700

At 6:25 PM -0700 3/18/08, email@hidden wrote:

>Well, FileMerge has a fairly abysmal UI and we haven't updated it in
>many years.  We're addressing that.
>
>The main issue is that you're comparing a newline-delimited file
>against a Return-delimited file.  Whoever mailed you the source code
>revision converted the file to a different line endings, and you have
>to convert it back in order to compare it.

It's 2008, and comparing files with different line endings is a "solved
problem". Apple should do better by its developers.
--

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