On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:29 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote:

(The problem of distributing "diffs" is that I could change the
line-endings and indentation for every file, and then I could give it
away... except that I'd then be giving away something that wasn't really
mine to give.)

There are options to diff (or at least GNU diff) that cause it to completely ignore whitespace in the lines it compares. This would then generate a patch file containing only your tangible changes.

Then again, you probably knew this. :)

Gregory

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