F8: Bug in diff ?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 2 13:49:21 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:41 +0000, Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> please confirm that what I'm seeing here is a bug before I bugzilla it.
> 
> Create 2 files, f1, f2 with contents "abc" and "abc " (without quotes),
> i.e. the same line with a space on the end.
> 
> Diff ignoring whitespace:
> 
> diff -b f1 f2
> 
> should produce no diff output, but does on F8. Works fine on FC6.
> 
> version: diffutils-2.8.1-17.fc8
> 

confirmed both on f8 and f6.

open a bug, please.

-sv





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