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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Sébastien BRUCKERT" <sebastien.bruckert@smile.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Representation of diff with trailing spaces
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 07:15:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200326111500.GB4193632@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABt=S26FB1zkwDCdmXeyVvFYvpvuGSX_y1Fg5N3K=yq0ZMyR7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Sébastien BRUCKERT wrote:

> # Abstract
> Something that always bothered me with git diff was how trailing
> spaces are represented. If I add spaces, then diff, they are
> represented in the terminal by a red background. If I then remove
> them, they are not represented. That's how I can have a diff with two
> exact lines, and I'm looking for the diff in it, but can't find it.
> Because it is the non-represented spaces.

Have you tried setting diff.wsErrorHighlight? By default we only
highlight whitespace problems in new lines, but it can be told to show
them in old lines or in context.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26 11:07 [RFC] Representation of diff with trailing spaces Sébastien BRUCKERT
2020-03-26 11:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-03-26 12:40   ` Sébastien BRUCKERT

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