Merge topic 'cmake-E-compare_files-eol'

a5098cad94 cmake: Add --ignore-eol option to `-E compare_files` command

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !2778

Help/manual/cmake.1.rst

@@ -373,9 +373,10 @@ Available commands are:
 ``chdir <dir> <cmd> [<arg>...]``
   Change the current working directory and run a command.
 
-``compare_files <file1> <file2>``
+``compare_files [--ignore-eol] <file1> <file2>``
   Check if ``<file1>`` is same as ``<file2>``. If files are the same,
-  then returns 0, if not it returns 1.
+  then returns 0, if not it returns 1.  The ``--ignore-eol`` option
+  implies line-wise comparison and ignores LF/CRLF differences.
 
 ``copy <file>... <destination>``
   Copy files to ``<destination>`` (either file or directory).

Help/release/dev/compare_files-ignore-eol.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+compare_files-ignore-eol
+------------------------
+
+* The :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-E compare_files`` command learned a new
+  ``--ignore-eol`` option to specify that end-of-line differences (e.g. LF vs
+  CRLF) should be ignored when comparing files.