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From: Daniel Penkin <dpenkin@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Incorrect unified diff when run with "--find-copies-harder"
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:36:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL78Jw0mQWxO4xkzFBoG0Oe4wjomUGj=dP5ufdUrE5Ku0GGEtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I believe I found a bug in how Git represents a diff when invoked with
"--find-copies-harder" parameter.
Specifically, the unified diff header of a hunk contains an extra
piece of text which appears to be a line from the context (i.e.
unchanged line), something like this:

    > git diff --find-copies-harder d00ca3f 20fb313
    diff --git a/test.txt b/copy.txt
    similarity index 81%
    copy from test.txt
    copy to copy.txt
    index 734156d..43a3f9d 100644
    --- a/test.txt
    +++ b/copy.txt
    @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ line 1
     line 2
     line 3
     line 4
    +added line
     line 5
     line 6
     line 7

Note "line 1" after the standard unified diff header.

I prepared a sample repository with a minimal file I can reproduce
this problem with:
https://bitbucket.org/dpenkin/find-copies-harder-bug

I'm running Git 2.18.0 on a macOS, but I also tried with Git 2.15.0
and 2.8.6 running on Alpine Linux and was able to reproduce the same
problem.

Please advise whether this is expected output or is indeed a bug.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Daniil Penkin

             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-24 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-24 10:36 Daniel Penkin [this message]
2018-06-24 13:33 ` Incorrect unified diff when run with "--find-copies-harder" Andrei Rybak
2018-06-24 14:42   ` Daniel Penkin

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