From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: New diff shows pessimal output for commit 1cb46f00
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:16:16 +0100

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 11:06:06PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> The new diff produces pessimal output when viewing the lib/diff.c
> change in commit 1cb46f007dad47a45d2c2d32aaeee11372f95309.
> 
> Compare
> $ got diff f48f80f8 a1db0dab
> 
> Against
> $ got cat f48f80f8 >a ; got cat a1db0dab >b ; diff -u a b
> 
> Or against got diff from got 0.44.
> 
> The new diff produces output that shuffles around hundreds of lines.

Yes, this is known. We are looking into it...