I completely agree with this and also the annotate algorithm should not take into account the line endings
RR 2014-02-11 17:56 GMT+01:00 Tony Papadimitriou <to...@acm.org>: > Hi all, > > While converting some text files from CRLF (Windows) to LF (Linux) > endings, and committing the changes, I noticed this very annoying issue > during DIFF: > > Every single line (the whole line) of the current and previous version > (which only differ by the line ending) appears to have changed. Although > technically the line ending itself has changed (and not the whole line > text), and I could understand some color appearing at the end of each line > indicating this difference, > > 1. I don't think it should highlight the whole line as different. > 2. I still think the correct display would be to show no changes at all > (all text should be white) because for text files, what makes a file really > different is the text itself, not the line endings which can be altered > when moving files back and forth between Windows/Linux/Mac. > > At any rate, maybe there is an option to not show line ending differences > are being different, and avoid this confusing display of colors for same > text? > > TIA > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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