Re: Strange diff behavior?

From: Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2007, 07:02 UTC
Message-ID: <31e9dd080706210002q4703f464xafa07359f98878cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070621065043.GA30521@moooo.ath.cx>

As I mentioned in the ps, I git-diff --check shows nothing. As a matter of fact, I do have color turned on and the pluses are green and minuses red, but there are none of the characteristic red blocks that trailing whitespace makes.

On 6/20/07, Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> wrote:

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> Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems like every change listed after the first one is meaningless.
> > I really think I just don't understand something about the diff
> > algorithm. Can someone tell my why those empty lines are recorded as
> > changes?
>
> This are whitespace changes.
>
>     $ git diff --color
>
> marks whitespaces at the end of the line with a red background color
> so you can see what changed.  I also use vim with :set list to see
> whitespace changes, e.g.
>
>     $ git diff | vim -c 'set list' -
>
> If you like to have colors (not just in diff) permnanently you can add
> this to your .git/config or ~/.gitconfig:
>
>     [color]
>         branch = auto
>         diff = auto
>         status = auto
>         pager = true
>
> See also git-config(1) for more information on these and other
> configuration options.
>