[cfe-dev] whitespace striping

Cédric Venet cedric.venet at laposte.net
Fri Nov 14 07:59:14 PST 2008


Florian Weimer a écrit :
> * Chris Lattner:
> 
>>> I'd do the work, if you can convince Chris.  :-)  In the past, he
>>> didn't mind doing it on a file basis on files people touch, but
>>> preferred not to do the change wholesale.
>> The problem with this is it makes svn blame very difficult to use.
> 
> It shouldn't be too difficult to implement something similar for
> Subversion.  In fact, since Subversion doesn't store line diffs
> (unlike CVS), it's probably just necessary to pass another option to
> the internal diff utility.

In fact, on windows, TortoiseSVN propose by default to ignore line 
ending change and whitespace change for blame. so it clearly can be 
implemented in the client.

  (and it show the superiority of windows tools over those of minor OS 
</troll>) more seriously, TortoiseSVN is a really good svn client.



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