From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:36:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87psainttt.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzzu5lp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:09:14 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 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.
I can't say I didn't expect this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-17 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-17 19:32 [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does) Jim Meyering
2006-12-17 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-17 20:36 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2006-12-17 20:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-18 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
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