From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:40:22 GMT
Subject: Re: diff/merge tool that ignores whitespace changes
Message-ID: <CAFuPQ1LrousHH9uK7zSeVvNrYwBBBpZwbM-fwgM_iDwWuqTMXg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4eab55d2-b504-4c66-84be-c1ffe4edf94c@zcs>

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Would that help ?
>> git help diff
>> [snip]
>>      --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.
>
> Now I yet need to find out how to configure tig for it.

Try: echo "set ignore-space = all" >> ~/.tigrc
And use 'W' to toggle between the different modes.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca