GNU bug report logs - #16848
diff reports a diff on identical lines

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Deplagne <Eric <at> Deplagne.name>
To: 16848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16848: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:24:31 +0100

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 03:52:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On some pair of files, "diff" reports a diff on identical lines.
> See the attached archive. At line 1272 of "diff -u out1 out2":
> 
> @@ -137681,90 +138934,186 @@
>  26659
>  468
>  462
> -26946
> +26946
> +470
> +814
> +815
> [...]
> 
> This chunk shouldn't contain:
> 
> -26946
> +26946
> 
> There's the same problem without the "-u" option.

  Some whitespace diff ?

-- 
  Eric Deplagne

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