From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:21:29 GMT
Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702121219550.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <eqodam$r17$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

[Cc'ing git list, which I sometimes have to do when Jakub replies]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:
> > 
> >> The major competing solutions git seeks to supplant (cvs, cvsnt, svn, 
> >> hg) have capability to recognize "text" files and transparently replace 
> >> \r\n with \n on input, the reverse on output, and ignore all such 
> >> differences on diff operations.
> > 
> > Agree with transformations on input and output; disagree on diff.
> 
> I wonder if this could/should be solved with adding some option to git-diff,
> similar to --ignore-space-change and --ignore-all-space...

It could be done, but those options were introduced for CRLF breakage in 
the first place.

You need --ignore-crlf-breakage? Just holler.

Ciao,
Dscho