diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 62cbe141efb411e831484fc36c0cba95a2b8846b..4c4dc673f86a1a0be37fd3f05af45bc961e38939 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ static void emit_rewrite_lines(struct emit_callback *ecb,
 	if (!endp) {
 		const char *plain = diff_get_color(ecb->color_diff,
 						   DIFF_PLAIN);
+		putc('\n', ecb->opt->file);
 		emit_line_0(ecb->opt, plain, reset, '\\',
 			    nneof, strlen(nneof));
 	}
diff --git a/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh b/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
index c00a94b9ba4498e72a31856aac9cf653bbce8ba3..2d030a4ec35009105c26e9689dcae1150fed7b2d 100755
--- a/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
+++ b/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
@@ -66,5 +66,35 @@ test_expect_success 'suppress deletion diff with -B -D' '
 	grep -v "Linus Torvalds" actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'prepare a file that ends with an incomplete line' '
+	test_seq 1 99 >seq &&
+	printf 100 >>seq &&
+	git add seq &&
+	git commit seq -m seq
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rewrite the middle 90% of sequence file and terminate with newline' '
+	test_seq 1 5 >seq &&
+	test_seq 9331 9420 >>seq &&
+	test_seq 96 100 >>seq
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'confirm that sequence file is considered a rewrite' '
+	git diff -B seq >res &&
+	grep "dissimilarity index" res
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'no newline at eof is on its own line without -B' '
+	git diff seq >res &&
+	grep "^\\\\ " res &&
+	! grep "^..*\\\\ " res
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'no newline at eof is on its own line with -B' '
+	git diff -B seq >res &&
+	grep "^\\\\ " res &&
+	! grep "^..*\\\\ " res
+'
+
 test_done