From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:56:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: tighten interaction between -w and --exit-code
Message-ID: <xmqqttsxbfyw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230817194912.GB3032779@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah, without having really dug into the problem too far, that does
> sound a lot better. I also wonder to what degree you could apply the
> same strategy to other formats (I guess it depends on them removing
> whitespace-only changes from a structure). From the test I posted
> earlier, it does look like many of them have the same blind spots for
> mode-only changes (and I suspect addition/removal of empty files is
> another corner case to check).

I have something cooking.  Stay tuned, without getting excited too
much ;-)

Thanks.