Mark Phippard wrote:
> Chas Douglass <chas@floogle.net> wrote on 09/28/2004 02:37:02 PM:
>
>
>>"Compare with base revision" and "compare with repository" both usually
>>report the entire file is different, while showing the two versions to
>>be mostly identical.
>>
>>That is, the text on both sides of the compare window are all hilighted,
>
>
>>indicating they are different, and yet they are for the most part
>>exactly the same.
>>
>>Is this considered "synchronization" and known to not work?
>>
>>Or does "synchronization" specifically refer to "team synchronization"
>>and/or the synchronization view?
>
>
> Synchronization refers to the Team -> Synchronize action. Your problem
> sounds like something with line ending differnces. You might explore the
> preferences for the Compare editor in Eclipse to see if it has something
> that will help give better results. Perhaps "Ignore Whitespace" will make
> a difference? There is a preference under Team -> SVN to show compare
> results in a dialog. I have never explored that option but perhaps it
> just runs an svn diff and shows the diff output?
[snip]
Thanks, turning on "ignore whitespace" makes it usable.
The code was created on windows and only checked in/out on windows, so
it shouldn't be line ending differences.
The command line "svn diff" correctly shows only changes on these
suspect files. Does subclipse work differently because of Eclipse?
Chas Douglass
Received on Thu Sep 30 01:13:45 2004