bug#20892: 25.0.50; Applying vc-diff hunks on CRLF tracked files

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 14:42:48 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 20892@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 1. Sometime in June 2015, upgrade my emacs. vc-diff some CRLF file
> 
> 2. "Cool, a new feature now makes it show precisely which chars were
>    added and deleted even the CRs"
> 
> 3. "Oh, but vc-apply-hunk stopped working, let's open bug 20892"
> 
> 4. Discuss bug, argue that showing ^M is cool for when you really want
>    to apply patches that add and remove just one or two of those.
> 
> 5. Apply some reasonable fix to my config. Be side-tracked by
>    dayjob. Lose interest in discussing the bug,
> 
> 6. Eventually, realize 4 is silly and if you're mixing CRLF and
>    non-CRLF line endings you've already lost.
> 
> 7. Recently, March 2016, also realize that diacritics are also wrong
>    in latin-1 files.
> 
> 8. Decide to reevaluate situation, read some code and commit messages,
>    and propose a new fix that makes the vc-diff buffer have the same
>    encoding as the originating file, as apparently was intended.
>    vc-apply-hunk is fixed, if I ever need to do something like 4
>    I'll do it outside of emacs.
> 
> I think you can close the bug.

Thanks, closing.