Re: Diff colorizer confused by dos newlines

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:28:32PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 
>> When I try to look at a color diff of a file using dos newlines,
>> the output gets an odd sequence of ansi escapes and a stray
>> carriage return showing up only on the + lines, but not the -.
>> The normal looking - lines look like this:
>> 
>> \r\n ( from previous line ), ansi color escape, '-', whitespace,
>> text, terminating ansi escpae ( [m ), \r\n.
>> 
>> The broken + lines look like this:
>> 
>> \r\n ( from previous line ), ansi color sequence, '+',
>> terminating ansi escape ( [m ), whitespace, ansi color sequence,
>> text, terminating ansi escape, ansi color sequence, stray \r,
>> terminating ansi escape, \n.
> 
> That's intentional; the added lines go through the "whitespace
> checker" to help you identify potential whitespace problems (there
> is not much point showing them on lines going away, since you are
> getting rid of them).
> 
>> Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
> 
> Try:
> 
> git config core.whitespace cr-at-eol
> 
> See the description of "core.whitespace" in "git help config" for
> more details.
> 
> -Peff
>