author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:48:01 +0000 (19:48 -0700) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:34:45 +0000 (20:34 -0700) | ||
commit | 392809702016cde59d50a7b07e8c27f6d0ec3c3f | |
tree | e24f06dd6aeb724aaab72b8aa32de381b989737e | tree | snapshot |
parent | bbb896d8e10f736bfda8f587c0009c358c9a8599 | commit | diff |
diff: Help "less" hide ^M from the output
When the tracked contents have CRLF line endings, colored diff output
shows "^M" at the end of output lines, which is distracting, even though
the pager we use by default ("less") knows to hide them.
The problem is that "less" hides a carriage-return only at the end of the
line, immediately before a line feed. The colored diff output does not
take this into account, and emits four element sequence for each line:
- force this color;
- the line up to but not including the terminating line feed;
- reset color
- line feed.
By including the carriage return at the end of the line in the second
item, we are breaking the smart our pager has in order not to show "^M".
This can be fixed by changing the sequence to:
- force this color;
- the line up to but not including the terminating end-of-line;
- reset color
- end-of-line.
where end-of-line is either a single linefeed or a CRLF pair. When the
output is not colored, "force this color" and "reset color" sequences are
both empty, so we won't have this problem with or without this patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the tracked contents have CRLF line endings, colored diff output
shows "^M" at the end of output lines, which is distracting, even though
the pager we use by default ("less") knows to hide them.
The problem is that "less" hides a carriage-return only at the end of the
line, immediately before a line feed. The colored diff output does not
take this into account, and emits four element sequence for each line:
- force this color;
- the line up to but not including the terminating line feed;
- reset color
- line feed.
By including the carriage return at the end of the line in the second
item, we are breaking the smart our pager has in order not to show "^M".
This can be fixed by changing the sequence to:
- force this color;
- the line up to but not including the terminating end-of-line;
- reset color
- end-of-line.
where end-of-line is either a single linefeed or a CRLF pair. When the
output is not colored, "force this color" and "reset color" sequences are
both empty, so we won't have this problem with or without this patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff.c | diff | blob | history | |
t/t4019-diff-wserror.sh | diff | blob | history |