From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:03:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make 'diff C^!' show the same diff as 'show C'
Message-ID: <7vws4ynl5e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200908210042.05802.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

>> If that is indeed the case and if it is a common thing to ask, isn't it
>> more productive to teach "show" a way to do so in a simpler way than
>> doing, say,
>> 
>> 	$ git show --pretty=format: HEAD
>
> That still doesn't get rid of the stray newline.

And the reason you don't want that newline, especially when you know there
always is one so if you really wanted to you could easily sed it out,
is...?