From: Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:12:18 GMT
Subject: Re: diff not finding difference
Message-ID: <CAKepmaihyVS3hiAS4bZUfvt-r0ZWycPRkWnokaS7Gx2hEnjT3w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKepmajegSMO91YZOe+P_BH2kzzR=RMqCE94XRQSfZzOVYKt6A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa
<adrianh.bsc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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