Re: [PATCH] tests: replace mingw_test_cmp with a helper in C

> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>
>>>> But otherwise the idea is sound.  We compare them line by line,
>>>> using strbuf_getline() to ignore differences in CRLF and LF that
>>>> originates at 4d715ac0 (Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic to
>>>> random LF <> CRLF conversions, 2013-10-26).  Only when we find the
>>>> input different, we use "git diff --no-index" to make the difference
>>>> (and unfortunately more, as it does not ignore CRLF <> LF
>>>> differences) visible.
>>
>> Why not use "git diff --no-index --ignore-cr-at-eol"?  Do you even need
>> to wrap it?
>
> Hmph.  That surely sounds sensible if it works, and I offhand do not
> see why it shouldn't work.