diff: fix whitespace-skipping with --color-moved

The code for handling whitespace with --color-moved
represents partial strings as a pair of pointers. There are
two possible conventions for the end pointer:

  1. It points to the byte right after the end of the
     string.

  2. It points to the final byte of the string.

But we seem to use both conventions in the code:

  a. we assign the initial pointers from the NUL-terminated
     string using (1)

  b. we eat trailing whitespace by checking the second
     pointer for isspace(), which needs (2)

  c. the next_byte() function checks for end-of-string with
     "if (cp > endp)", which is (2)

  d. in next_byte() we skip past internal whitespace with
     "while (cp < end)", which is (1)

This creates fewer bugs than you might think, because there
are some subtle interactions. Because of (a) and (c), we
always return the NUL-terminator from next_byte(). But all
of the callers of next_byte() happen to handle that
gracefully.

Because of the mismatch between (d) and (c), next_byte()
could accidentally return a whitespace character right at
endp. But because of the interaction of (a) and (b), we fail
to actually chomp trailing whitespace, meaning our endp
_always_ points to a NUL, canceling out the problem.

But that does leave (b) as a real bug: when ignoring
whitespace only at the end-of-line, we don't correctly trim
it, and fail to match up lines.

We can fix the whole thing by moving consistently to one
convention. Since convention (1) is idiomatic in our code
base, we'll pick that one.

The existing "-w" and "-b" tests continue to pass, and a new
"--ignore-space-at-eol" shows off the breakage we're fixing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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