diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
index 85b5eb7c0..b8f8dcb5a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/AbstractDiffTestCase.java
@@ -191,7 +191,15 @@ public abstract class AbstractDiffTestCase {
 	public void testEdit_InsertNearCommonTail() {
 		EditList r = diff(t("aq}nb"), t("aCq}nD}nb"));
 		assertEquals(new Edit(1, 1, 1, 2), r.get(0));
-		assertEquals(new Edit(3, 3, 4, 7), r.get(1));
+		assertEquals(new Edit(4, 4, 5, 8), r.get(1));
+		assertEquals(2, r.size());
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testEdit_LinuxBug() {
+		EditList r = diff(t("a{bcdE}z"), t("a{0bcdEE}z"));
+		assertEquals(new Edit(2, 2, 2, 3), r.get(0));
+		assertEquals(new Edit(6, 6, 7, 8), r.get(1));
 		assertEquals(2, r.size());
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/DiffAlgorithm.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/DiffAlgorithm.java
index b20e3258b..96f4d1185 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/DiffAlgorithm.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/DiffAlgorithm.java
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public abstract class DiffAlgorithm {
 			Edit last = e.get(e.size() - 1);
 			if (last.getType() == Edit.Type.INSERT) {
 				while (last.endB < b.size()
-						&& cmp.equals(b, last.beginB, b, region.endB)) {
+						&& cmp.equals(b, last.beginB, b, last.endB)) {
 					last.beginA++;
 					last.endA++;
 					last.beginB++;