From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:38:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ekv5k6$1ih$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.63.0612031908020.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> +--ignore-space-change::
>> + Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white
>> + space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
>> + more white space characters to be equivalent.
>
> Thank you for bringing this up. The latter part is correct, but the first
> part not yet. I asked at the time if somebody cares, but got no answer, so
> "-b" does _not_ ignore white space at the end of line ATM, but only white
> space change. So here is a patch to fix that behaviour:
Alternate solution would be to fix documentation, to document existing code.
I used GNU diff documentation, perhaps it is better if we are GNU diff
compatibile...
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-03 16:24 [PATCH] Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w Jakub Narebski
2006-12-03 18:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-03 18:38 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-12-03 19:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-04 2:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-04 9:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
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