From: John Moon Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:59:27 GMT Subject: RE: git diff --ignore-space-at-eol issue Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > $ 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.