From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:51:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Consequences of CRLF in index?
Message-ID: <xmqq4lqoj8pe.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171024181415.3tvmc36aqi335v66@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd be interested to hear what happens when diff-ing across a line
> ending fixup commit.  Is this an area where Git needs some
> improvement?  "git merge" knows an -Xrenormalize option to deal with a
> related problem --- it's possible that "git diff" needs to learn a
> similar trick.

My knee-jerk reaction is that (1) the end user definitely wants to
see preimage and postimage lines are different in such a commit by
default, one side has and the other side lacks ^M at the end., and
(2) one of the "whitespace ignoring" options (namely, "ignore space
at eol") may suffice, but if not, it should be easy to invent a new
one "ignore CR at eol".