Re: Bug#563882: git-core FTBFS on ia64: t1001-read-tree-m-2way.sh test fails

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> $ /tmp/GIT/git-core-1.6.6/git diff --no-index M.out 4.out
> diff --git a/M.out b/4.out
> index 4aefa95..d5ec90a 100644
> Binary files a/M.out and b/4.out differ
> $ cat M.out
> 100644 346d4e61f111336a1443ef6b2e834aa5b1a7f91a 0       bozbar
> 100644 8e4020bb5a8d8c873b25de15933e75cc0fc275df 0       frotz
> 100644 dca6b92303befc93086aa025d90a5facd7eb2812 0       nitfol
> $ cat 4.out
> 100644 346d4e61f111336a1443ef6b2e834aa5b1a7f91a 0       bozbar
> 100644 8e4020bb5a8d8c873b25de15933e75cc0fc275df 0       frotz
> 100644 dca6b92303befc93086aa025d90a5facd7eb2812 0       nitfol
> 100644 0a41e115ab61be0328a19b29f18cdcb49338d516 0       yomin

Funny.

So it looks like the binary file detection code is broken somewhere.
I’m reading diff.c now.

Thank you very much for this.  As soon as I have a good question, I’ll
send you a patch to try.

Surprised,
Jonathan