From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: diff/merge tool that ignores whitespace changes
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:40:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1679275990.100371.1346175639379.JavaMail.root@genarts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12945e4d-6a76-4c5d-a4ee-132552a5da4d@zcs>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Enrico Weigelt" <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:26:39 PM
> Subject: diff/merge tool that ignores whitespace changes
>
> I'm looking for a diff / merge tool that treats lines with
> only whitespace changes (trailing or leading whitespaces,
> linefeeds, etc) as equal.
>
> The goal is to make reviews as well as merging or rebasing
> easier when things like indentions often change.
>
> Does anybody know an solution for that ?
I use kdiff3 which has the option to ignore whitespace changes (bonus: I can use it on all three major OSes as my work requires). It's GUI based, so that could be considered a downside to some.
I usually use a combination of Git's built-in diff and kdiff to check my work.
HTH,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-28 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-08-28 16:26 ` diff/merge tool that ignores whitespace changes Enrico Weigelt
2012-08-28 17:40 ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2012-08-28 17:41 ` Matthew Caron
2012-08-28 18:08 ` Stephen Bash
2012-09-01 20:11 ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-09-01 20:41 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2012-09-02 21:07 ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-09-03 20:40 ` Jonas Fonseca
2012-09-01 21:09 ` Andreas Schwab
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