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Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
mkdir test
cd test
git init
cat >a.txt <<EOF
NRZ /NZRQ/NBRQ/
NRZ(C) /NZRCQ/
NRZ(M) /NZRMQ/
EOF
git add a.txt
git commit -m 1
cat >a.txt <<EOF
NRZ /NZRMQ/NZRCQ/NZRQ/NBRQ/
EOF
git diff --word-diff-regex=.
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
diff --git a/a.txt b/a.txt
index 278ea76..7e6f42f 100644
--- a/a.txt
+++ b/a.txt
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
NRZ /NZR{+M+}Q/N[-BRQ/-]{+ZRCQ/NZRQ/NBRQ/+}
[-NRZ(C) /NZRCQ/-]
[-NRZ(M) /NZRMQ/-]
or anything whose hunk has three lines
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
diff --git a/a.txt b/a.txt
index 278ea76..7e6f42f 100644
--- a/a.txt
+++ b/a.txt
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
NRZ /NZR{+M+}Q/N[-BRQ/-]
[-NRZ(C) /N-]ZRCQ/N[-R-]Z[-(M) -]{+RQ+}/N[-Z-]{+B+}R[-M-]Q/
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
some newlines are ignored
and the length of the hunk is wrong;
git says "@@ -1,3 +1 @@" but the hunk has only 2 lines
Anything else you want to add:
this may be clearer with --word-diff=porcelain
because it doesn't emit enough number of "~"s
```
$ git diff --word-diff-regex=. --word-diff=porcelain
diff --git a/a.txt b/a.txt
index 278ea76..7e6f42f 100644
--- a/a.txt
+++ b/a.txt
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
NRZ /NZR
+M
Q/N
-BRQ/
~
-NRZ(C) /N
ZRCQ/N
-R
Z
-(M)
+RQ
/N
-Z
+B
R
-M
Q/
~
```
this should emit 3 tildes
Please review the rest of the bug report below.
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.46.0
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
libcurl: 7.68.0
zlib: 1.2.11
uname: Linux 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Mar 29
23:14:13 UTC 2024 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 9.4
libc info: glibc: 2.31
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash
[Enabled Hooks]
