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request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace

From
SBSimon Braunschmidt <sb@emlix.com>
Date
Mar 26, 2010, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID
<201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com>
Hi

It would be great if I could teach gitk to better highlight whitespace changes in the diff view.

Every once in a while (and again today) I have to review patches that "fix whitespace". Allthough the fixes are usually trivial, I have to check them, which is not trivial with the gitk display. Also I often mistakenly accept changes after review with gitk that turn out to contain a mix of tabs/whitespace etc.

I searched the mailinglist (for gitk whitespace) and asked on irc, yet nobody seemed to care so far.

What do you think about it?

Regards,Gruessle Simon

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  1. Simon BraunschmidtMar 26, 2010
  2. Oliver KullmannMar 26, 2010

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