OK you little snots, I figured out what to do: use wdiff. $ svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES Index: RELEASE-NOTES =================================================================== --- RELEASE-NOTES (working copy) +++ RELEASE-NOTES (revision 82501) @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs * (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk: link at the top of the page +* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language
=== API changes in 1.18 === * (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result @@ -175,6 +176,7 @@ max value, api doesn't validate the input is actually an integer * (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and prop=info&inprop=displaytitle +* (bug 27554) Update api information text to reflect change in bug 26125
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
$ svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES|wdiff -d -3
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[----] {++++} ====================================================================== [-(working copy)-] {+(revision 82501)+} ======================================================================
{+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language+} ======================================================================
{+* (bug 27554) Update api information text to reflect change in bug 26125+} ======================================================================
And it even deals with the reformatted lines as mentioned previously in this thread ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/52150 ).
One wishes the diff man page would say SEE ALSO wdiff(1), and visa-versa, lest I go every stupidly writing my own program again.