Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Eggert
On 02/24/2014 11:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: If you find the time, would you please also add a test case like the one Vincent posted? 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

Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines

2014-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks for the bug report. > > I applied the attached three patches; the first is to gnulib and changes > gnulib's diffseq module to handle that case better, the second is to > diffutils and brings diffutils up to the latest gnulib, and the th

Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#16848: diff reports a diff on identical lines

2014-02-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for the bug report. I applied the attached three patches; the first is to gnulib and changes gnulib's diffseq module to handle that case better, the second is to diffutils and brings diffutils up to the latest gnulib, and the third is also to diffutils and makes diffutils compatible wit