On 02.12.2010 21:21, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Bill Tutt <b...@tutts.org> wrote: >> Additional ignore whitespace related comment: >> * IIRC, Perforce had an interesting twist on ignoring whitespace. You >> could ignore just line leading/ending whitespace instead of all >> whitespace differences but pay attention to any whitespace change >> after the "trim" operation had completed. >> >> e.g.: >> * " aaa bbb " vs "aaa bbb" would compare as equal >> * " aaa bbb " vs "aaa bbb" would compare as equal >> * " aaa bbb " vs "aaa bbb" would compare as non-equal due to the >> white space change in the middle of the line > Cool (svn doesn't have that option). But I'm not sure what that would > be useful for (as a user, I can't immediately imagine an important use > case). Anyway, could still be a nice option...
It filters out the noise when code is only reindented, but catches whitespace differences in, say, literal strings within the reindented code. -- Brane
