Re: Strange diff behavior?

As I mentioned in the ps, I git-diff --check shows nothing. As a
matter of fact, I do have color turned on and the pluses are green and
minuses red, but there are none of the characteristic red blocks that
trailing whitespace makes.

On 6/20/07, Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] wrote:

Jason Sewall [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It seems like every change listed after the first one is meaningless.
I really think I just don't understand something about the diff
algorithm. Can someone tell my why those empty lines are recorded as
changes?

This are whitespace changes.

    $ git diff --color

marks whitespaces at the end of the line with a red background color
so you can see what changed.  I also use vim with :set list to see
whitespace changes, e.g.

    $ git diff | vim -c 'set list' -

If you like to have colors (not just in diff) permnanently you can add
this to your .git/config or ~/.gitconfig:

    [color]
        branch = auto
        diff = auto
        status = auto
        pager = true

See also git-config(1) for more information on these and other
configuration options.