bug#4451: 23.1; EOL problems with vc-diff and cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>,  4451@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:36:54 -0400
> 
> Currently, VC reads diff's output using the coding-system used for the
> file, which seems like a sane choice, but in the above case it leads to the
> problem we've seen.

If this is the whole truth, then how come using the --binary switch to
Diff (which is supposed to produce Unix-style EOLs in Diff's output)
results in an even more garbled text in the Emacs buffer?