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bug with context greater than 0

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Message #14 received at 23644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 23644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Claude <lamy.claude <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#23644: bug#23644: bug with context greater
 than 0
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 07:53:58 -0700

tags 23644 notabug
close 23644
thanks

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Claude wrote:
>>
>> Notice that  on the original file diff specifies that it will list context
>> lines
>> content 1,2 for the
>> beginning and 24,25 for the end, but the lines are not displayed in the
>> diff
>> block description.
>
>
> Yes they are; they are common context, e.g., lines 24-25 of the first file
> are the same as lines 24-25 of the second file, so they are displayed once
> with leading ' '.
>
>> The two context lines appear for the modified files for the same
>> differences
>> though.
>> Also, the two context lines are displayed, at top, and at bottom when
>> differences occure in the middle of the file.
>
> Sorry, I don't see the bugs here; the output looks OK to me.

Same here, so I'm marking this auto-created 'issue' as a non-bug and closing it.

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