GNU bug report logs - #17492
diff handles moved text poorly; should not need --minimal

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Scott McPeak <smcpeak <at> coverity.com>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:32:03 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 17492-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Scott McPeak <smcpeak <at> coverity.com>, 17492-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#17492: diff handles moved text poorly; should
 not need --minimal
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 19:23:26 -0700

Scott McPeak wrote:
> To reproduce what I reported, one only has to run the short shell script
> I included, so perhaps someone with a working dev build could try that?

I tried it and 'diff' worked for me:

$ diff -u orig.txt new.txt | wc -l
1972

So I'll mark the bug as fixed.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 66 days ago.

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