diff(1) -N behaviour - Bug 233402

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Because When I switched from GNU diff to BSD diff recently, the intent 
> was to be mostly compatible with GNU diff (the one we had for very long, 
> not necessary the very latest version if it) it has been requested by 
> many users to avoid breakage in most script and usage of diff people 
> were having for a long time.

I reported another breakage (and fix) back in early March: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244533

Cheers, Jamie