From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:09:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)
Message-ID: <7vtzzu5lp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612171200290.3479@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> You may recall that GNU diff -u changed recently so that it no
>> longer outputs any trailing space unless the input data has it.
>
> I still consider that to be a bug in GNU "diff -u".
>
> We work around that bug when applying patches, but I don't think we should 
> replicate it.

Me neither.