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Ed Maste changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Ed Maste ---
Oops, sorry for my confusing reply, I had it backwards.
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--- Comment #3 from Ed Maste ---
My preference, if GNU diff did not exist, would be to leave the code as is, and
change the man page to be clear. I would argue that -q and -w are independently
useful, and being able to use -q with whitespac
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--- Comment #2 from Scott Aitken ---
Sorry, I’m confused.
Are you suggesting:
a) the current behaviour is correct and the man page needs remediation. (ie:
the '-q’ should modify the matching logic), or
b) the current behaviour is incorrec
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--- Comment #1 from Ed Maste ---
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
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Mateusz Piotrowski <0...@freebsd.org> changed:
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Bug ID: 252515
Summary: diff incorrectly reports files as different when with
-q -w options set
Product: Base System
Version: 12.2-RELEASE
Hardware: amd64
