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: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: 16848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16848: 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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