Inconsistency between diff and svn diff

I came across this problem while using ViewVC, but I don't think it's a problem with ViewVC, and it mihgt not even be a problem with Subversion. It's just that I have different results using diff and svn diff and I don't understand why.

I have a text file, with the svn:mime-type property set to text/plain, which unfortutanely does not have a newline at the end (and maybe this is the problem).

Running the svn diff command

svn diff -c5867 http://<path>/zdiacb10.rwt

gives me the differences but ends with the message

\ No newline at end of file

(yes, with a heading \)

I have also use the svn cat command twice to get the file at revision 5866 and 5867 and the used the diff command like this

svn cat -r5866 http://<path>/zdiacb10.rwt > gt1
svn cat -r5867 http://<path>/zdiacb10.rwt > gt2
diff gt1 gt2

But the result was

Binary files gt1 and gt2 differ

Is it because of the missing newline at the end that diff thinks these are binay files? And is it because the svn:mime-type property is set that svn is able to actually give the differences?

Thanks
Giulio

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Received on 2009-09-29 11:19:56 CEST