Re: [PATCH] Teach diff -B about colours

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 20, 2007, 18:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702201932100.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vodnovgcs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Matthias Lederhofer noticed that `diff -B` did not pick up on diff 
> > colournig.
> 
> sp.?

s/colournig/colouring/

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> > -static void copy_file(int prefix, const char *data, int size)
> > +static void copy_file(int prefix, const char *data, int size,
> > +		const char *set, const char *reset)
> > ...
> >  	if (!nl_just_seen)
> > -		printf("\n\\ No newline at end of file\n");
> > +		printf("%s\n\\ No newline at end of file\n", reset);
> >  }
> 
> Are you sure about this one?  If preimage lacked terminating LF and the 
> postimage has it, then don't you want to see "\ No..." as an addition?

Yes, you're right. But I tried to imitate what git-diff does without -B.

Ciao, Dscho