[debbugs-tracker] bug#20929: closed (problem with diff -B and incomplete lines)

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regarding problem with diff -B and incomplete lines
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> problem with diff -B and incomplete lines
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> Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:58:42 -0700
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> Thanks for the bug report.  I'm forwarding this to bug-diffutils so that it gets 
> a proper bug number.
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> Subject: Bug in diff
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:00:48 +0100
> From: Ricardo Anido <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
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> If the last line of a file has a sole character and no '\n', using the flag
> -B makes diff miss the difference between files. The difference is
> correctly reported using flags -b or -w. Better explained by an example,
> below. Notice that the last line of tmp2 has only the character 'X':
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> address@hidden:~$ cat tmp1
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> a
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> b
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> c
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> address@hidden:~$ cat tmp2
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> a
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> b
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> c
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> address@hidden:~$ od -cx tmp1
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> 0000000   a  \n   b  \n   c  \n
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>            0a61    0a62    0a63
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> 0000006
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> address@hidden:~$ od -cx tmp2
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> 0000000   a  \n   b  \n   c  \n   X
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>            0a61    0a62    0a63    0058
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> 0000007
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> address@hidden:~$ diff -B tmp1 tmp2
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> address@hidden:~$ diff -b tmp1 tmp2
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> 3a4
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> > X
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> \ No newline at end of file
> address@hidden:~$
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> Best regards, thanks for the amazing work on gnu!
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> Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:11:15 -0700
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> Thanks for the report.
> That was fixed by this change:
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>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=v3.3-24-gd2fd9d4
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> That will be included in the upcoming diffutils-3.4
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