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

From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2012, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CALWbr2zSe6GEy=_7SXqRocKwhXauXmP7eMMmDur4Vg7npqBPyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU163-W51DAB90003C969CDF837A2CF3F0@phx.gbl>

Then you should give the output of diff --stat, and he will be able to ignore files with no changes.

The change was originally made for permission changes. diff --stat needs to show files have changed even though, indeed, there is no diff output.

You could also use --numstat and filter out files with no changes (starting by 0 0).

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, John Moon <johnmoon77@hotmail.com> wrote:

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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
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers.