[PATCH 0/2] color-moved: ignore all space changes by default

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2017, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20171025224620.27657-1-sbeller@google.com>

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote[1]:

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> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>  * As moved-lines display is mostly a presentation thing, I wonder
>>    if it makes sense to always match loosely wrt whitespace
>>    differences. 
>
> Well, sometimes the user wants to know if it is byte-for-byte identical
> (unlikely to be code, but maybe column oriented data for input;
> think of all our FORTRAN users. ;)

... and this is the implementation and the flip of the default setting to ignore all white space for the move detection.

It applies on "v3 (x)diff cleanup: remove duplicate code" [2].

Thanks, Stefan

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kbba9KuDX7HsxhW3jXs7ocWfZg=KSHE-GsXjntnT4PWdg@mail.gmail.com [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171025184912.21657-1-sbeller@google.com/

Stefan Beller (2):
  diff: decouple white space treatment for move detection from generic
    option
  diff.c: ignore all white space changes by default in the move
    detection

 Documentation/diff-options.txt |  15 ++++
 diff.c                         |  18 ++++-
 diff.h                         |   1 +
 t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh     | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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