Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > and the reason seems to be that the '\n' at the end got dropped as the > old code was very confusing (the old code had two different '\n' cases > for the "show filename or not"). > > I think the right fix is this whitespace-damaged trivial one-liner: > > diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c > index 3c6a3e0fa..653bb2e72 100644 > --- a/diff.c > +++ b/diff.c > @@ -5272,6 +5272,7 @@ static void show_mode_change(struct > diff_options *opt, struct diff_filepair *p, > strbuf_addch(&sb, ' '); > quote_c_style(p->two->path, &sb, NULL, 0); > } > + strbuf_addch(&sb, '\n'); > emit_diff_symbol(opt, DIFF_SYMBOL_SUMMARY, > sb.buf, sb.len, 0); > strbuf_release(&sb); > > but somebody should double-check that. > > Linus Thanks for being extra gentle by mentioning "old code was very confusing", but it was not necessary. We should have caught this breakage during the review, but I somehow failed to spot it. My bad. Thanks for a fix.