In a project where some of the files containscontain ^M as newline separators. Diffing
separators, diffing these files areis apparently impossible, since git-diff
git diff sees it as the entire file isas just a single line.
How does one diff withgit diff when comparing the current and previous version
versions of a source code file?
Is there an option like "treat ^M^M as newline when diffing" ?
prompt> git-diff "HEAD^" -- MyFile.as
diff --git a/myproject/MyFile.as b/myproject/MyFile.as
index be78321..a393ba3 100644
--- a/myproject/MyFile.cpp
+++ b/myproject/MyFile.cpp
@@ -1 +1 @@
-<U+FEFF>import flash.events.MouseEvent;^Mimport mx.controls.*;^Mimport mx.utils.Delegate
\ No newline at end of file
+<U+FEFF>import flash.events.MouseEvent;^Mimport mx.controls.*;^Mimport mx.utils.Delegate
\ No newline at end of file
prompt>
UPDATE:
now I have written a Ruby script that checks out the latest 10 revisions and converts CR to LF.
require 'fileutils'
if ARGV.size != 3
puts "a git-path must be provided"
puts "a filename must be provided"
puts "a result-dir must be provided"
puts "example:"
puts "ruby gitcrdiff.rb project/dir1/dir2/dir3/ SomeFile.cpp tmp_somefile"
exit(1)
end
gitpath = ARGV[0]
filename = ARGV[1]
resultdir = ARGV[2]
unless FileTest.exist?(".git")
puts "this command must be run in the same dir as where .git resides"
exit(1)
end
if FileTest.exist?(resultdir)
puts "the result dir must not exist"
exit(1)
end
FileUtils.mkdir(resultdir)
10.times do |i|
revision = "^" * i
cmd = "git show HEAD#{revision}:#{gitpath}#{filename} | tr '\\r' '\\n' > #{resultdir}/#{filename}_rev#{i}"
puts cmd
system cmd
end
