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Bug 250428 - Diff is unable to distinguish trailing newline
Summary: Diff is unable to distinguish trailing newline
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Diff (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.2
Hardware: PC Other
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Ondrej Vrabec
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Reported: 2015-02-15 07:29 UTC by terje7601
Modified: 2016-05-23 19:08 UTC (History)
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Description terje7601 2015-02-15 07:29:14 UTC 
To reproduce, create a new project with the following 4 files:
none.txt = ""
unix.txt = "\n"
windows.txt = "\r\n"
mac.txt = "\r"

Diff considers all 4 files equal (0/0 differences). In my opinion, when "Ignore Leading And Trailing Whitespace" is unchecked in the Diff options, this case should be detected.

If you add the above files to a Git repository & then rename the files (none.txt becomes unix.txt, unix.txt becomes windows.txt, ...), git will show all 4 files have changed, but when doing "Diff to HEAD" NetBeans says there are no differences. In my opinion, this is confusing at least.