Re: git diff --ignore-space-at-eol issue

Then you should give the output of diff --stat, and he will be able to
ignore files with no changes.

The change was originally made for permission changes. diff --stat
needs to show files have changed even though, indeed, there is no diff
output.

You could also use --numstat and filter out files with no changes
(starting by 0 0).

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, John Moon [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

$ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol test.txt
$ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --stat test.txt
test.txt | 0
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
$ git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --name-status test.txt
M test.txt

The idea is that even though diff doesn't show any differences, stat,
shortstat, numstat and name-status reports the file as being changed.
This is available since v1.8.1-rc0.

Thanks for the info.  Unfortunately it's not what i would expect.
If i told git diff specifically to ignore line endings, why is --name-status  showing me a file as being modified when the only modification is the very thing i told it to ignore.
The same thing for --stat, why is it showing me a file with zero changes?  Just my opinion though.

I'll tell you why this is a problem for me, basically what i am doing is running the "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol --name-status "  on my root directory to give to someone else who is not using git to give them the files that i have modified.  I don't want to give them a file where only the line ending has changed.

Cheers.