Re: [bug-diffutils] Bug#625630: diffutils: diff --ignore-matching-lines doesn't ignore newlines if they near a different line (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

BBOn Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:
11;2801;0c;2801;0c
> On 08/04/11 06:32, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > $ /usr/bin/diff --ignore-matching-lines='^xxx.*$' <(echo -e 
> > 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\nxxx\ny\neee\nxxx\nfff') <(echo -e 
> > 'aaa\nbbb\nccc\nddd\neee\nfff')
> > 5,6d4
> > < xxx
> > < y
> 
> That's the expected behavior.  The documentation says that 
> --ignore-matching-lines
> only suppresses a difference if every changed line in the hunk matches the RE.
> Here, "y" does not match the RE, so the entire hunk is output.  So I don't
> see a bug here.

Thanks a lot. Will close it, then.