Re: [PATCH] Respect core.autocrlf when preparing temporary files for external diff
Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
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>> The discussion in the last few messages in this thread speculates that the
>> external programs are more likely to expect representations suitable in
>> the work tree, aka "smudged", than "clean" one. It would be nice to get a
>> datapoint from you as the original reporter to confirm or refute that
>> speculation.
>
> I agree to the speculations. IMHO calling an external diff tool with
> two revisions of a file should result in the same as e.g. checking out
> the two revisions in two different working trees and then launching
> the user's external diff tool on the two working tree files.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>