Re: request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace

From: Oliver Kullmann <o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>
Date: Mar 26, 2010, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20100326162125.GM19793@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com>

Yeah, that would be good. Don't know whether it has something to do with a change in Git (I'm using 1.7.0.1), but recently I got quite a few submissions where gitk shows lines as changed, but I couldn't find out what it was.

A general option to show explicitly the change would be a good thing.

Oliver

P.S. This would also be helpful for long lines (yet it's a pain with gitk to find out where the change is).

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:19:17PM +0100, Simon Braunschmidt wrote:

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> 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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