Re: Lastest busybox git prints lines before and after diff lines. (Not in recent change.

Checked a machine with previous busybox and it did same, so some 
earlier change?

On 24 Aug 2026 at 22:02, Michael D. Setzer II via busy wrote:

To:             	[email protected]
Date sent:      	Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:02:04 +1000
Subject:        	Lastest busybox git prints lines before and after 
diff lines.
Priority:       	normal
From:           	"Michael D. Setzer II via busybox" 
<[email protected]>
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> Noticed a difference in diff between Fedora and busybox??
> Was comparing to files where lines with 1M changed to 4M
> But busybox outputting different lines.
> Fedora diff shows 108 lines while busybox diff is 151 lines?
> 
> Made two small test files.
> 
> $ cat test1 test2
> a
> b
> c
> d
> ex
> f
> g
> 
> a
> b
> c
> d
> e
> f
> g
> 
> Fedora diff just shows line 5
> $ diff test1 test2
> 5c5
> < ex
> ---
> > e
> 
> Busybox diff shows additional lines?
> $ busybox diff test1 test2
> --- test1
> +++ test2
> @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
>  b
>  c
>  d
> -ex
> +e
>  f
>  g
> 
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 Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)     
 mailto:[email protected]                            
 mailto:[email protected]
 mailto:[email protected]
 Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
 G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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