{"thread":{"id":"23187","subject":"request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace","startedAt":"2010-03-26T14:19:17Z","lastAt":"2010-03-26T16:21:25Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Simon Braunschmidt","Oliver Kullmann"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"137852","messageId":"201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com","threadId":"23187","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace","fromName":"Simon Braunschmidt","fromEmail":"sb@emlix.com","sentAt":"2010-03-26T14:19:17Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-26T14:19:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sb@emlix.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi\n\nIt would be great if I could teach gitk to better highlight \nwhitespace changes in the diff view.\n\nEvery once in a while (and again today) I have to review \npatches that \"fix whitespace\". Allthough the fixes are usually \ntrivial, I have to check them, which is not trivial with the gitk \ndisplay. Also I often mistakenly accept changes after \nreview with gitk that turn out to contain a mix of \ntabs/whitespace etc. \n\nI searched the mailinglist (for gitk whitespace) and asked on irc, yet \nnobody seemed to care so far.\n\nWhat do you think about it?\n\nRegards,Gruessle\nSimon\n"},{"id":"137874","messageId":"20100326162125.GM19793@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk","threadId":"23187","inReplyTo":"201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com","subject":"Re: request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace","fromName":"Oliver Kullmann","fromEmail":"o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk","sentAt":"2010-03-26T16:21:25Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-26T16:21:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk","avatar":null},"body":"Yeah, that would be good.\nDon't know whether it has something to do\nwith a change in Git (I'm using 1.7.0.1),\nbut recently I got quite a few submissions\nwhere gitk shows lines as changed, but I couldn't\nfind out what it was. \n\nA general option to show explicitly the change would\nbe a good thing.\n\nOliver\n\nP.S. This would also be helpful for long lines (yet it's a pain with\ngitk to find out where the change is).\n\n\nOn Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:19:17PM +0100, Simon Braunschmidt wrote:\n> Hi\n> \n> It would be great if I could teach gitk to better highlight \n> whitespace changes in the diff view.\n> \n> Every once in a while (and again today) I have to review \n> patches that \"fix whitespace\". Allthough the fixes are usually \n> trivial, I have to check them, which is not trivial with the gitk \n> display. Also I often mistakenly accept changes after \n> review with gitk that turn out to contain a mix of \n> tabs/whitespace etc. \n> \n> I searched the mailinglist (for gitk whitespace) and asked on irc, yet \n> nobody seemed to care so far.\n> \n> What do you think about it?\n> \n> Regards,Gruessle\n> Simon\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n"}]}