Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:32:46 -0700

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On some pair of files, "diff" reports a diff on identical lines.

Yes, that's a problem, though strictly speaking not a bug. You can use the 
--minimal option to avoid this problem. No doubt there's an efficient way to 
change "diff" to avoid this particular problem even when --minimal is not used, 
although that will take a bit of thinking.