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Yep, Longest Common Subsequence is usually greedy and that’s the earliest set of lines that satisfies the search. Happens when you just treat a file as lines and only match those.
You can get better results with more syntax or content awareness. Chunk into paragraphs or code blocks or functions, then sentences or statement lists, then lines, then words, etc. I think Beyond Compare can do this.