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

hg init
python -c 'print "confuse str.splitlines\nembedded\rnewline"' > a
hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
echo clean diff >> a
hg ci -mb -d '2 0'
hg diff -r0 -r1