From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:38:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907310838nbca0037u1a192dc07a379e66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3a8d65kv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

The fact remains the same: white space is a much more used term, and
IMHO the only one that really matters.

-- 
Felipe Contreras