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diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines

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Message #8 received at 28796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>, 28796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on
 identical lines
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.

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