diff: demonstrate a bug with --patience and --ignore-space-at-eol

When a single character is added to a line, the combination of these two options results in an empty diff. This bug was noticed and reported by Naja Melan. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Johannes Schindelin committed Jul 9, 2016 at 09:23 UTC a5229cc95103fab9449bf198a8a119482a8f0845
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t/t4033-diff-patience.sh
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@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ test_description='patience diff algorithm'
5 . ./test-lib.sh
6 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-diff-alternative.sh
7
8 +test_expect_failure '--ignore-space-at-eol with a single appended character' '
9 + printf "a\nb\nc\n" >pre &&
10 + printf "a\nbX\nc\n" >post &&
11 + test_must_fail git diff --no-index \
12 + --patience --ignore-space-at-eol pre post >diff &&
13 + grep "^+.*X" diff
14 +'
15 +
16 test_diff_frobnitz "patience"
17
18 test_diff_unique "patience"