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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:38:37 +0000
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> 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. =C2=A0"ignore white space" is a supe=
rset of
> "ignore space change", iow the latter has more specific meaning than =
the
> former. =C2=A0It is not surprising to see that search engines find la=
rger
> 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.

--=20
=46elipe Contreras