Re: BUG: CR marker ^M doesn't show up in '-' lines of diffs when the ending of the removed line is CR+LF

Am 26.11.18 um 04:04 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

It appears to me that what Frank sees is not "^M highlighted for
whitespace breakage appears only on postimage lines, while ^M is
shown but not highlighted on preimage lines".  My reading of the
above is "Not just without highlight, ^M is just *NOT* shown on the
preimage line".

That does not sound right.  I would understand it if both lines
showed ^M at the end, and only the one on the postimage line had it
highlighted as a trailing-whitespace.

I agree that this is a (small?) weakness. But...

When we are producing a colored output, we know we are *not* writing
for machines, so one way to do it would be to turn CR at the end of
the line into two letter "^" "M" sequence on our end, without relying
on the terminal and/or the pager.  I dunno.

... this goes too far, IMO. It is the pager's task to decode control 
characters.

-- Hannes