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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2020 10:12:50 +0100
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
To:        bsd-lists@bsdforge.com, bapt@freebsd.org
Cc:        ypankov@fastmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, fnoyanisi@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: diff(1) -N behaviour - Bug 233402
Message-ID:  <202005290912.04T9CoJ1001254@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <c56d36b42642c02f9ac0e80d5e5bc489@FreeBSD.org>
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Because When I switched from GNU diff to BSD diff recently, the intent 
> was to be mostly compatible with GNU diff (the one we had for very long, 
> not necessary the very latest version if it) it has been requested by 
> many users to avoid breakage in most script and usage of diff people 
> were having for a long time.

I reported another breakage (and fix) back in early March: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244533

Cheers, Jamie



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