From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:00:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <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.