Re: diff/merge tool that ignores whitespace changes

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Sep 1, 2012, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <504272F0.3070701@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <fab86cd5-e3cf-4ddf-aa00-aafe44e8ce8c@zcs>

On 01.09.12 22:11, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

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> Thanks folks, but that doesn't solve my problem. I'm looking for something
> that's usable on command line or in scripts.
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> Usecase a)
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> * git-diff or git-format-patch or tig should not show differences
>   that are only whitespace changes (eg. differing linefeeds or
>   tabs vs. spaces, changed indentions, etc)

Would that help ?
git help diff
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     --ignore-space-at-eol
           Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.

       -b, --ignore-space-change
           Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at
           line end, and considers all other sequences of one or more
           whitespace characters to be equivalent.

       -w, --ignore-all-space
           Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences
           even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none.