don't return uninitialized memory from bdiff.blocks() bdiff.blocks() returns a dummy match at the end of both files; the length of that chunk is never set, so it will sometimes contain random heap garbage. There are apparently workarounds for this elsewhere: # bdiff sometimes gives huge matches past eof, this check eats them,

#!/bin/sh
#
mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo 0 > a
echo 0 > b
hg ci -A -m m -d "1000000 0"
hg rm a
hg cat a
sleep 1 # make sure mtime is changed
echo 1 > b
hg ci -m m -d "1000000 0"
echo 2 > b
hg cat -r 0 a
hg cat -r 0 b
hg cat -r 1 a
hg cat -r 1 b