[issue1229] hg diff: produce small diff's for mixed eols (in repo)

[ab]

New submission from ab <abraendle at gmx.de>:

For "hg diff", if the files in the repository have different line endings (\n vs
\r\n),
it produces huge diffs with all lines as "-", then all lines as "+".

So: "hg diff" should have an option like in "cygwin diff":
  --strip-trailing-cr  Strip trailing carriage return on input.

i.e. remove \r at end of input lines before diff'ing.

Note: hg diff -w does not work:
 -w --ignore-all-space     ignore white space when comparing lines

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messages: 6528
nosy: ab
priority: feature
status: unread
title: hg diff: produce small diff's for mixed eols (in repo)

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