Re: diff not finding difference
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- Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 24, 2015, 21:12 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is a weird one: > > [file-1 begin] > > abcd efg hijklmnop > > [file-1 end] > > [file-2 begin] > > blah blah blah > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > abdc boo ya! > > [file-2 end] > > Do a diff between these and it won't find any difference. > > Same with the following two lines, each in a different file: > sabc fed ghi jkl > abc def ghi jkl > > I first noticed this on the command line git and then in VS2013. The > original problem was like my first example. The files were much > longer, but all that git would see is the addition of the line of > ////..., but not the removal of the original line. > > I've tried some other simple file changes with similar results. > Something seems to be definitely broken in git diff. :( > > Command line version of git is 1.9.5 msysgit.0. > > > A
BTW, I've upgraded to git version 2.5.3.windows.1 and the problem still persists.
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