Those are two ranges, the one with the - is the range for the chunk in the original file, and the one with the + the range in the new file. The R designates the line number where the diff operation is started. The numbers after the comma are the number of affected lines in each file. Every time you remove a line, the +r number will be smaller ... More @Wikipedia
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