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Re: [PATCHv3] git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 31, 2009, 00:48 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> Google:
> ignore space change: 17,300,000
> ignore white space: 181,000,000

But that is not relevant either. "ignore white space" is a superset of "ignore space change", iow the latter has more specific meaning than the former. It is not surprising to see that search engines find larger number of references to more general terms than more specific ones.

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