Inconsistent whitespace produced by cmp.Diff about go-cmp HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @akupila, sorry to hear about your struggle. This is working as intended. The documentation on Diff says:

Do not depend on this output being stable. If you need the ability to programmatically interpret the difference, consider using a custom Reporter.

The output of Diff has in the past and will continue to change because it is intended to evolve to be more and more humanly readable. Codifying it's output in something like an example test would mean that the test is brittle and breaks whenever Diff's output changes again. The instability of the output was done to deliberately make it harder to accidentally assume that the output was stable.

from go-cmp.

Oh, i didn't notice that in the docs, but it makes sense. Thanks for this, I'll use a custom Reporter 👍

Thanks also for all the work you've put into go-cmp 🙂

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