Re: [Mingw-users] Line endings and MSYS diff

[Roumen P. <bug...@ro...>]

mo...@rq... wrote:
> Yeah, I would have done the whitespace ignoring but I actually was trying
> to diff a file that had whitespace differences (formatting the output when
> --help was passed to the utility) so that didn't work out for me.
> 
> I am using the Windows environment so of course I shun vi, vim, emacs,
> pico, and most of the unixy tools in msys.  I had hoped that Wordpad would
> not add the extra return character, but it does in XP.  Win2K it didn't. 
> And yeah, if I get really lazy I might try editing stuff in Notepad.

May be Notepad++ ?

> [SNIP]
> I hope in the future you'll consider adding some option/argument to diff
> to ignore the DOS-specific linefeed if the user wants to go that route. 
> I'd argue that it's probably a good feature to have upstream in the main
> GNU diff as well, but I find that unix developers typically go out of
> their way to show how much they don't care about windows-specific issues,
> which is a shame.

The GNU diff has an options --strip-trailing-cr.

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