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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Frank Schäfer" <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: CR marker ^M doesn't show up in '-' lines of diffs when the ending of the removed line is CR+LF
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f06b734a-fc8e-221a-c983-f2ab9daba17f@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzhtwzghr.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-26 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-23 18:19 BUG: CR marker ^M doesn't show up in '-' lines of diffs when the ending of the removed line is CR+LF Frank Schäfer
2018-11-23 21:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-11-24 14:51   ` Frank Schäfer
2018-11-24 15:25     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-24 22:07     ` Johannes Sixt
2018-11-25 14:03       ` Frank Schäfer
2018-11-25 21:39         ` Johannes Sixt
2018-11-26  4:02           ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]           ` <xmqqzhtwzghr.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
2018-11-26 19:49             ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2018-11-26 23:31               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 18:15                 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-11-27 20:09                   ` Frank Schäfer
2018-11-29  2:11                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-02 19:31                     ` Frank Schäfer
2018-12-02 21:22                       ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-05 19:29                         ` Frank Schäfer
2018-12-05 21:31                           ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-03  1:15                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05 19:43                         ` Frank Schäfer
2018-12-06  0:58                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-06 18:42                             ` Frank Schäfer
2018-11-27 20:06                 ` Frank Schäfer
2018-11-25 23:50         ` brian m. carlson

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