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

From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2012, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CALWbr2y3BdqcD-62jhPSQsK3U=8-Dc=R-jxg8H0yqpgVfdHJXw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU163-W40634B340214076467C88ECF360@phx.gbl>

> The --ignore-space-at-eol option is ignored when used in conjunction
> with --name-status.
> It works fine otherwise.

Indeed the behavior of diff --stat, and etc has been corrected very recently to make it more consistent across all options. I don't know if the new behavior is exactly what you expected:

$ 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.