Hi Junio,

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This time with doc updates and tests.  The previous one is at 
> 
> https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqshe7j0af....@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com
> 
> A change that is supposed to only change the end-of-line convention
> between LF <-> CRLF and nothing else can be verified with "diff -b"
> or "diff --ignore-space-at-eol" in practice, but these hide changes
> in whitespaces other than the carriage return at the end of the lines.

Good. I was wishing for such a feature in the past.

However, the short and sweet `-b` or `-w` switches are really, really
nice. `--ignore-cr-at-eol` is just very cumbersome to type out. So I think
you will want to add this patch to your patch series:

-- snipsnap --
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash 
b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 0e16f017a41..b7a45e8df29 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ __git_diff_common_options="--stat --numstat --shortstat 
--summary
                        --patch-with-stat --name-only --name-status --color
                        --no-color --color-words --no-renames --check
                        --full-index --binary --abbrev --diff-filter=
-                       --find-copies-harder
+                       --find-copies-harder --ignore-cr-at-eol
                        --text --ignore-space-at-eol --ignore-space-change
                        --ignore-all-space --ignore-blank-lines --exit-code
                        --quiet --ext-diff --no-ext-diff

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