Using the formatter means that you get to focus on only the semantic changes and all format related changes are filtered for you ....
I'd rather not be bothered with diffs for methods that were merely formatted, but that's just me. Dale ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Dale Henrichs" <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:53:52 PM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Can we change diff-generator to ignore white-space diffs? | | formatted source code doesn't show up as different anyway? | | ----- Original Message ----- | | From: "Dale Henrichs" <[email protected]> | | To: [email protected] | | Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:53:01 PM | | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Can we change diff-generator to ignore | | white-space diffs? | | | | "ignoring whitespace" means? | | | | ----- Original Message ----- | | | From: "Igor Stasenko" <[email protected]> | | | To: [email protected] | | | Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:44:39 PM | | | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Can we change diff-generator to | | | ignore | | | white-space diffs? | | | | | | On 11 March 2012 02:27, Dale Henrichs <[email protected]> | | | wrote: | | | > An approach that I've used in the past is to use a formatter | | | > both | | | > sides of the comparison ... | | | > | | | | | | Well, the point is that formatting changes are visible without | | | any | | | highlighting. | | | And if you will use formatter, then you won't see that guy | | | actually | | | just (re)formatted code. | | | | | | > Dale | | | > | | | > ----- Original Message ----- | | | > | From: "Igor Stasenko" <[email protected]> | | | > | To: "Pharo Development" <[email protected]> | | | > | Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:21:28 PM | | | > | Subject: [Pharo-project] Can we change diff-generator to | | | > | ignore | | | > | white-space diffs? | | | > | | | | > | Because it makes things unreadable. | | | > | Here, i replaced spaces with tabs.. and see what happens. | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | -- | | | > | Best regards, | | | > | Igor Stasenko. | | | > | | | | > | | | | | | | | | | | | -- | | | Best regards, | | | Igor Stasenko. | | | | | | | | | | | |
