Eric Firing wrote:
> Yes, I understand, and I am sorry--but I hope it is one-time pain to 
> avoid continuing pin-pricks.  If svn ignored trailing whitespace, then 
> there would be no problem; I could continue to use an editor that 
> removes it, and you could continue to use editors that gratuitously add 
> it, and usually it would make no difference.  This is not the case, 
> however.  As it is now, if a file comes into svn without any trailing 
> whitespace, and one of you loads it up, maybe makes a trivial change 
> after running your cursor through it, and saves it--it will end up with 
> a big changeset--lots of trailing whitespace.  This is just plain bad. 
> All downside, no upside.
>   
FWIW, you can get svn diff to ignore (trailing whitespace) -- by not
using svn diff.

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -uw path/to/file.py

With apologies for previously hijacking your thread into an emacs
configure-a-thon, :)
Andrew

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