Re: Consequences of CRLF in index?

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] 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".