# request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace

2 messages from 2010-03-26 to 2010-03-26. Participants: Simon Braunschmidt, Oliver Kullmann.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23187

## Simon Braunschmidt, 2010-03-26 14:19

Subject: request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace
Message-ID: <201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201003261519.18095.sbraun%40emlix.com

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Hi

It would be great if I could teach gitk to better highlight 
whitespace changes in the diff view.

Every once in a while (and again today) I have to review 
patches that "fix whitespace". Allthough the fixes are usually 
trivial, I have to check them, which is not trivial with the gitk 
display. Also I often mistakenly accept changes after 
review with gitk that turn out to contain a mix of 
tabs/whitespace etc. 

I searched the mailinglist (for gitk whitespace) and asked on irc, yet 
nobody seemed to care so far.

What do you think about it?

Regards,Gruessle
Simon

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## Oliver Kullmann, 2010-03-26 16:21

Subject: Re: request for enhancement: gitk highlight whitespace
Message-ID: <20100326162125.GM19793@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100326162125.GM19793%40cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <201003261519.18095.sbraun@emlix.com>

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Yeah, that would be good.
Don't know whether it has something to do
with a change in Git (I'm using 1.7.0.1),
but recently I got quite a few submissions
where gitk shows lines as changed, but I couldn't
find out what it was. 

A general option to show explicitly the change would
be a good thing.

Oliver

P.S. This would also be helpful for long lines (yet it's a pain with
gitk to find out where the change is).


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:19:17PM +0100, Simon Braunschmidt wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It would be great if I could teach gitk to better highlight 
> whitespace changes in the diff view.
> 
> Every once in a while (and again today) I have to review 
> patches that "fix whitespace". Allthough the fixes are usually 
> trivial, I have to check them, which is not trivial with the gitk 
> display. Also I often mistakenly accept changes after 
> review with gitk that turn out to contain a mix of 
> tabs/whitespace etc. 
> 
> I searched the mailinglist (for gitk whitespace) and asked on irc, yet 
> nobody seemed to care so far.
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 
> Regards,Gruessle
> Simon
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