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When does diff use | in a side by side diff?
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This is the best description of “incomplete line” I could find:
When the last line of a file ends with a new line character it is a “complete line”. Otherwise it is an “incomplete line”.
For example, suppose F and G are one-byte files that contain just f and g, respectively. Then diff F G outputs:
1c1
< f
\ No newline at end of file
---
> g
\ No newline at end of file