git diff shows twice “\ No newline at end of file” - no need for repetition

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ДПДилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>

Date

Aug 13, 2025, 07:20 UTC

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<1b0d634286da16f32cd9faf541ee28c811d6c83f.camel@aegee.org>

Hello,

when a file, which does not end in a new line, is modified, git diff shows twice the text “\ No newline at end of file”. As this piece of the file is not modified, I think git diff should print it once.  In the example below the first “\ No newline at end of file” should be skipped.

I am using git 2.50.0.

As a matter of fact github also shows this information twice - https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/pull/755/files - which I find is bad.

Greetings
  Дилян

$ git diff 

diff --git a/layouts/_partials/docs/toc-show.html b/layouts/_partials/docs/toc-show.html
index 21122a1..c243ae5 100644
--- a/layouts/_partials/docs/toc-show.html
+++ b/layouts/_partials/docs/toc-show.html
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
   and
     (default .Site.Params.BookToC .Params.BookToC)
     (not (eq .TableOfContents "<nav id=\"TableOfContents\"></nav>"))
-) }}
\ No newline at end of file
+}}
\ No newline at end of file