From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:12:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect core.autocrlf when preparing temporary files for external diff
Message-ID: <7vwsahb19z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <bdca99240903221548y38f31177q6abb88c2f7f87a73@mail.gmail.com>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

Ok.