An original code (correct rendering):
https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/720667e/lib/internal/Magento/Framework/DB/Transaction.php#L49-L60
A email with the code (wrong rendering: extra empty lines are added, the screenshot is taken in the GMail web interface):
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sam
(Sam Saffron)
2016 年 4 月 28 日午前 12:56
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Are you sure there are empty lines there and its not simply that the CSS is a bit off?
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The line breaks between the <li> tags are preserved because the code is inside the <pre> tag.
Additionally, each line of code has a bottom padding of 10px:
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Now it became even worse: the violet background now covers only a part of the code block: