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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:54:55 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 252515] diff incorrectly reports files as different when with -q -w options set
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--- Comment #1 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
Interesting; GNU diff behaves as you expected:

$ diff -qw a b; echo $?
Files a and b differ
1
$ gdiff -qw a b; echo $?
0

That said I think the behaviour of BSD diff is more useful; in any case the=
 man
page needs to be more clear.

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