[Python-apps-team] Bug#871945: mercurial: suboptimal diff compared to previous versions

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-08-14 14:37:45 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 12:01:49AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Control: forwarded -1 https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5656
> > 
> > I've reported this bug upstream.
> > 
> Thanks for doing that.  As the upstream issue was resolved as wontfix,
> I'm doing the same here.

OK, the Mutt repository has migrated to git anyway.

If someone else is affected by this issue, I think that a workaround
is to use the extdiff extension, as the GNU diff output was fine on
the example I had provided.

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