Sorry if this is a duplicate. My sendmail update didn't go as smooth as
I'd thought. :-/
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Klauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The repository already contains files which use tabs, CRLF, et cetera.
>Corresponding diffs to old revisions already contain loads of unnecessary
>whitespace changes. I'd like to get rid of these diffs, to make comparisons
>between never revisions (which use filter) and older revisions (which didn't
>have the filter) possible without getting all this whitespace changes junk.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:25am]~(501) cvs diff --help
-w --ignore-all-space Ignore all white space.
-b --ignore-space-change Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
-B --ignore-blank-lines Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
I suspect those options should provide you with enough control to avoid the
necessity of those changes.
As an SCM person, I look upon a change such as this with agast. It's
equivalent to outdating a version of a file that has a bug in it. You
simply don't do that!
mrc
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