From 72766295c03396a06befbcc5106d0cfbb4b925bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven van Heugten <sven@memcmp.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 20:58:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify handling of empty diffs

---
 bin/mechanicaldiff.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/mechanicaldiff.py b/bin/mechanicaldiff.py
index 57c5cbf..11fc6c5 100755
--- a/bin/mechanicaldiff.py
+++ b/bin/mechanicaldiff.py
@@ -117,10 +117,6 @@ def main() -> None:
     left_out = False
 
     for section in sections:
-        if not section["hunks"]:
-            left_out = True
-            continue
-
         kept_hunks = []
         for hunk_lines in section["hunks"]:
             filtered = filter_hunk(hunk_lines, search, replace)
@@ -132,6 +128,7 @@ def main() -> None:
                 left_out = True
 
         if not kept_hunks:
+            left_out = True
             continue
 
         output_lines.extend(section["header"])