Your message dated Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:32:52 +0200 (CEST) with message-id <alpine.deb.2.00.1108041530220.10...@cantor.unex.es> has caused the report #625630, regarding diffutils: diff --ignore-matching-lines doesn't ignore newlines if they near a different line to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) bug-diffut...@gnu.org
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--- Begin Message ---Hello. Received this from the Debian bug system. Sorry for the delay in processing it. I have checked and it may still be reproduced with diffutils 3.0.50 from git. Thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bekir Dogan <beki...@gmail.com> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 19:30:37 +0300 Subject: Bug#625630: diffutils: diff --ignore-matching-lines doesn't ignore newlines if they near a different line Package: diffutils Version: 1:3.0-1 Severity: normal This example reports nothing different, really ignores lines with 'xxx' as expected: $ /usr/bin/diff --ignore-matching-lines='^xxx.*$' <(echo -e 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\nxxx\neee\nxxx\nfff') <(echo -e 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\neee\nfff') But this example reports the first 'xxx' line as difference near the other different line ('y'), and does not report the second 'xxx' line: $ /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 Expected result should be like this: $ /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') 6d5 < y [...]
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