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Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Dec 17, 2006, 20:00 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0612171200290.3479@woody.osdl.org>
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<87y7p6nwsh.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> You may recall that GNU diff -u changed recently so that it no
> longer outputs any trailing space unless the input data has it.
I still consider that to be a bug in GNU "diff -u".

We work around that bug when applying patches, but I don't think we should replicate it.

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  1. git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)Jim Meyering, Dec 17, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsDec 17, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2006
  4. Jim MeyeringDec 17, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiDec 17, 2006
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