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Re: TortoiseMerge Tool request

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:03:14 +0100

2009/4/28 <webpost_at_tigris.org>:
> I would love a tool that compares wordwise and ignores single line breaks but not double ones.
>
> LaTeX normally does not make a difference between a single line break and a white space, but the text editors keep breaking and appending lines over and over.

Sounds like you need to get a better text editor.

> Is there ever such a tool?

Could be, if you write it.

> More precisely,
>
> It would perfect that the tool compares Mine and Yours, having Old as the reference, treating triple or quadruple line breaks as double line breaks, single line breaks as spaces and then show to me just the real conflicts (words, sentences or paragraphs where both Mine and Yours differ from Old).
>
> In the merged version, it should allow the user to decide if it would borrow the formatation (spaces and line breaks) from Mine, Yours, or Old.

Simon

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