Re: [arch-general] diff is going nuts

2015-03-22 Thread Henrik Danielsson
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 : > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for some time past I often need to replace diff wi

Re: [arch-general] diff is going nuts

2015-03-22 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf 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

[arch-general] diff is going nuts

2015-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, for some time past I often need to replace diff with meld, since diff is going nuts. Today I noticed the most ridiculous thing. Just the first line is different! [1] Nothing else is different, but the complete file is listed. Regards, Ralf [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux energyXT27]$ pacman -Q