[cfe-dev] whitespace striping

[P. Durante]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Cédric Venet <cedric.venet at laposte.net> wrote:
> 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.

svn already has that since 1.4.0 (that's over two years ago)