Bug 690803 - Shows entire file as different
Summary: Shows entire file as different
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: diffutils
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-25 12:28 UTC by h4ck3rpunk
Modified: 2011-03-28 23:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-03-28 12:18:34 UTC
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I tried making a patch between wonderland qvm and lakitu7qvm (16.17 MB, patch)
2011-03-25 19:32 UTC, h4ck3rpunk 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description h4ck3rpunk 2011-03-25 12:28:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I use diff, both files are always marked as entirely different

Additional info:
I just installed it from yum without any additional repos
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2011-03-25 12:36:24 UTC 
Please show a test case including files to compare and command line used.
Comment 2 h4ck3rpunk 2011-03-25 19:27:08 UTC 
Sorry... I'm new

diff -rupN Release_5.5/ WonderQVM-v1.0/ > wonderland.patch

...is the command I used. The file shows the entire original file as red and the new file as green (might have that backwards...) I'll attach the .patch.
Comment 3 h4ck3rpunk 2011-03-25 19:32:53 UTC 
Created attachment 487655 [details]
I tried making a patch between wonderland qvm and lakitu7qvm

Does not find any similarities. I used: 

diff -rupN Release_5.5/ WonderQVM-v1.0/ > wonderland.patch
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2011-03-28 12:18:34 UTC 
Thanks for the report.  On this occasion it isn't really a bug.  One of the files uses CR-LR line termination, while the other does not -- so the files are in fact entirely different.  Use the option --strip-trailing-cr to see differences other than line termination differences.
Comment 5 h4ck3rpunk 2011-03-28 23:39:33 UTC 
Oh thanks! Sorry about posting a nonbug.
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