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Correct a prose diff behavior when prose pieces include newlines
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Authored by epriestley on May 30 2020, 9:04 PM.
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Summary

See https://discourse.phabricator-community.org/t/bad-regex-in-prose-diff-logic/3969.

The prose splitting rules normally guarantee that newlines appear only at the beginning or end of blocks. However, if a prose sentence ends with text like "...x\n.", we can end up with a newline inside a "sentence".

If we do, the regular expression that breaks it into pieces will fail.

Arguably, this is an error in how sentences are split apart (we might prefer to split this into two sentences, "x\n" and ".", rather than a single "x\n." sentence) but in the general case it's not unreasonable for blocks to contain newlines, so a simple fix is to make the pattern more robust.

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Added a failing test which includes this behavior, made it pass.

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This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.May 30 2020, 9:11 PM
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thanks. I can confirm the change lets the daemon finish the task and renders a reasonable diff.