From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:38:55 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <11651630814064-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 18:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GqwFJ-0002Nv-8q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:39:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759974AbWLCSjW (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:39:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759975AbWLCSjW (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:39:22 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:62923 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759974AbWLCSjV (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:39:21 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GqwF4-0008Nv-VU for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:39:10 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:39:10 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:39:10 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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