Re: Git trims the last character of content from remotes

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> On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/5/26 2:34 AM, Chris Torek wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl> wrote:
> > > [snippage]
> > >> When the width of a whole line is the same as my terminal width ...
> > > [snippage]
> > >> ... sideband.c prints ANSI_SUFFIX = "\033[K", this escape
> > >> sequence being "clear the line from the current position until the end of the
> > >> line", and this is the root cause of the issue.
> >
> > > If you have a non-empty prefix
> > > string before this "clear to end of line" suffix, the solution is more
> > > obvious: print the ESC [ K as a *prefix* rather than a suffix, but
> > > that fails with the empty prefix.
> > We do have a non-empty prefix, but why would it be necessary?  What's
> > wrong with clearing the full line starting from column 1?
> >
> > Anyway, do you mean something like this?
>
> If the purpose of the clear is to reset the background color on
> wrapped lines, this will not have any effect, since you clear before
> the new line is wrapped in. (This is a bit of an obscure edge case, if
> you set the background color, and wrap the line, the entire new line
> will be scrolled in with the active background color, then you write
> perhaps 10 more characters and send the sequence to reset the
> background color, but the entire rest of the line is still brown, or
> whatever it was set to when you wrapped).
>
> Example command to reproduce locally,
> % echo -e '\e[43maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\e[0mhihi'
> (Add more aaaaaaa if necessary so that the line breaks before they end).