From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:54:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)
Message-ID: <em4all$b2c$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzzu5lp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Me neither.

Perhaps with --gnu-diff-compatibility then? 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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