Re: [bug-diffutils] Bug#625630: diffutils: diff --ignore-matching-lines doesn't ignore newlines if they near a different line (fwd)

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/04/11 06:32, Santiago Vila wrote:
> $ /usr/bin/diff --ignore-matching-lines='^xxx.*$' <(echo -e 
> 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\nxxx\ny\neee\nxxx\nfff') <(echo -e 
> 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\neee\nfff')
> 5,6d4
> < xxx
> < y

That's the expected behavior.  The documentation says that 
--ignore-matching-lines
only suppresses a difference if every changed line in the hunk matches the RE.
Here, "y" does not match the RE, so the entire hunk is output.  So I don't
see a bug here.