From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w
Message-ID: <ekv5k6$1ih$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612031908020.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> +--ignore-space-change::
>> +    Ignore changes in amount of white space.  This ignores white
>> +    space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
>> +    more white space characters to be equivalent.
> 
> Thank you for bringing this up. The latter part is correct, but the first 
> part not yet. I asked at the time if somebody cares, but got no answer, so 
> "-b" does _not_ ignore white space at the end of line ATM, but only white 
> space change. So here is a patch to fix that behaviour:

Alternate solution would be to fix documentation, to document existing code.
I used GNU diff documentation, perhaps it is better if we are GNU diff
compatibile...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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