From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>,
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:38:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907310838nbca0037u1a192dc07a379e66@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3a8d65kv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Google:
>> ignore space change: 17,300,000
>> ignore white space: 181,000,000
>
> But that is not relevant either. "ignore white space" is a superset of
> "ignore space change", iow the latter has more specific meaning than the
> former. It is not surprising to see that search engines find larger
> number of references to more general terms than more specific ones.
The fact remains the same: white space is a much more used term, and
IMHO the only one that really matters.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 21:00 [PATCHv3] git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-28 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-29 6:33 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-29 7:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-29 8:20 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-29 8:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-29 9:05 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-29 8:40 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-07-29 9:09 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-31 0:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-07-31 0:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-31 15:38 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2009-07-31 16:16 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-31 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-31 19:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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