begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:49:33AM -0800: [snip] > 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. If my goal is to steal your source and give it away by "patching" it, I wouldn't use such options.
The "inadvertent" giving away of your source with my patches is a more complicated case, and takes longer. > Then again, you probably knew this. :) Yes. (Developing in a mixed Linux/Solaris/OS-X/MSWindows environment often causes line-ending fun, so detecting this sort of thing with diff helps to determine if a fix-the-line-endings is required, or if rolling back suffices. Likewise with various IDEs that "fix" source code indentation for you.) -Stewart "Let me append /* $line_number */ to every line in the file" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
