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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines |
Date: | Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:42:13 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 |
On 02/24/2014 11:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I'm afraid that'd be iffy, as there was no bug -- in the test case, 'diff' had correct behavior. In general, there are a lot of correct outputs for 'diff', and I'm leery of test cases that would require a particular behavior when the exact choice isn't obvious.I suppose we could use his test case and make sure that 'diff' doesn't generate the obviously-suboptimal output, but the value of such a test case would be relatively small, that is, almost surely the test case wouldn't catch similar bugs in the future.If you find the time, would you please also add a test case like the one Vincent posted?
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