[LEDE-DEV] Patch refresh issues - mystery whitespace

[Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant]

> On 20 Dec 2017, at 08:44, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
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>> On 17 Dec 2017, at 09:57, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
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>> Dear Illuminati,
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>> I have a bit of a mystery with patch refreshes, namely that I’m occasionally getting extra whitespace on the end of some block header patch lines (Lines beginning @@).  As a result my kernel patch refreshes touch more files than are actually really required and I don’t consider suitable for submitting.
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Eventually solved.  For anyone’s interest:  It looks like macos ‘diff’ is subtly broken.  Installing the homebrew diffutils is the solution ‘brew install diffutils’.  An extra gotcha is to make sure staging_dir/host/bin/diff is linked to the brew supplied ‘/usr/local/bin/diff’.


Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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