From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:36:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)
Message-ID: <87psainttt.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzzu5lp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

I can't say I didn't expect this.