From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:00:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Moved code detection: ignore space on uniform indentation
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZ-k7Ho-_Cg3OLLypfjoEn8pTDN7dWpX0=8o+o2BvUcqA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xpDfKSvQZ+YktsSSBPTc3JXzc9dR36tohLctfDf04iaOg@mail.gmail.com>

>>> The fun is in the last patch, which allows white space sensitive
>>> languages to trust the move detection, too. Each block that is marked as
>>> moved will have the same delta in {in-, de-}dentation.
>>> I would think this mode might be a reasonable default eventually.
>>
>> This sounds like a good idea. "Trust" is probably too strong a word, but
>> I can see this being useful even in non-whitespace-sensitive languages
>> with nested blocks (like C).
>
> The ability to detect moved code despite whitespace changes would be
> good, even while showing diffs with the whitespace intact.

That is what the last patch is about.