On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:49:33 -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
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> 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. :)
Historical perspective. I just looked in a couple of old manuals.
This type of option to diff(1) was available in Ultrix in 1984, and
4.4BSD in 1993. It was not available in SysVR2 in 1984. I suspect
that it was added in 4.2BSD. Anyhow it isn't explicitly a GNU thing.
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