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Re: A bug in the -B option of gnudiff?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: A bug in the -B option of gnudiff? |
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Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:28:36 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Cory F. Cohen" <address@hidden> writes:
> It would appear that my interpretation of "-B Ignore changes whose
> lines are all blank." is different than the one implemented in GNU
> diff. I would have expected that the result would have been the same
> as removing all blank lines from both files and then diffing.
No, it's the same as doing a diff, and looking at the resulting hunks
of changes, and discarding all the hunks that consist entirely of
blank lines.