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diff reports a diff on identical lines

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Subject: bug#16848: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a
 diff on identical lines)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:00:05 +0000

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Your bug report

#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 16848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>, 16848-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:59:40 -0800

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Thanks for the bug report.

I applied the attached three patches; the first is to gnulib and changes 
gnulib's diffseq module to handle that case better, the second is to 
diffutils and brings diffutils up to the latest gnulib, and the third is 
also to diffutils and makes diffutils compatible with the new gnulib in 
order to use the fix.  I'll CC: this to bug-gnulib.  The fix works for 
me so I'm marking this bug as fixed, but if it still doesn't work for 
you I can reopen it.

[diffseq.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

[0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

[0002-diff-remove-TOO_EXPENSIVE-heuristic.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: diff reports a diff on identical lines
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 03:52:48 +0100

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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.

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