RE: git diff --ignore-space-at-eol issue

From: John Moon <johnmoon77@hotmail.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2012, 19:59 UTC
Message-ID: <BLU163-W51DAB90003C969CDF837A2CF3F0@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <CALWbr2y3BdqcD-62jhPSQsK3U=8-Dc=R-jxg8H0yqpgVfdHJXw@mail.gmail.com>

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> $ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol test.txt
> $ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --stat test.txt
> test.txt | 0
> 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> $ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --name-status test.txt
> M test.txt
>
> The idea is that even though diff doesn't show any differences, stat,
> shortstat, numstat and name-status reports the file as being changed.
> This is available since v1.8.1-rc0.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it's not what i would expect. If i told git diff specifically to ignore line endings, why is --name-status showing me a file as being modified when the only modification is the very thing i told it to ignore. The same thing for --stat, why is it showing me a file with zero changes? Just my opinion though.

I'll tell you why this is a problem for me, basically what i am doing is running the "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --name-status "  on my root directory to give to someone else who is not using git to give them the files that i have modified.  I don't want to give them a file where only the line ending has changed.

Cheers.