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[bug-diffutils] bug#28796: bug#28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on i
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Vincent Lefevre |
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[bug-diffutils] bug#28796: bug#28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines |
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Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:54:36 +0200 |
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On 2017-10-16 01:32:46 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On some pair of files, "diff" reports a diff on identical lines.
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> 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.
OK. This would be useful, as --minimal is overkill on my original
files (15.87s with --minimal, 2.73s without it), even though I can
afford to waste a bit of time in the rare cases I need to do such
a diff on huge files.
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