Okay, thanks for the information, Mark. I sent an enhancement request to
the Subversion users list (post pending, since I hadn't been subscribed).
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The main thing would be to look at ISVNClient as that exposes the methods
> we use:
>
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/javahl/1.9/org/apache/subversion/javahl/ISVNClient.html
>
> So in this case, you want Merge to ignore whitespace. When you look at
> the merge methods exposed, none of those seem to support passing flags that
> tell merge to ignoreWhitespace.
>
> The diff method has been enhanced (seemingly in the 1.8 release) to accept
> this new DiffOptions class with these flags, but I do not see that merge
> has the same. That is what we would need to be able to expose UI options
> for the same.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Jamie Jackson <jamiejaxon_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I can't claim to know squat about JavaHL, but is this the option?
>> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/javahl/latest/org/apache/subversion/javahl/SVNUtil.DiffOptions.IgnoreSpace.html#change
>>
>> If there's an upstream enhancement to be filed (to the Subversion/JavaHL
>> team), I don't mind doing it, but I'll need to be able to write an
>> intelligible ticket.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jamie
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Those options are not available. I think things might have changed in
>>> recent SVN releases, but the last time we touched this code the JavaHL API
>>> did not expose any of these options to us in the API so we were not able to
>>> expose them in our UI. As a C++ client, TortoiseSVN has access to the full
>>> Subversion API.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Jamie Jackson <jamiejaxon_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This topic came up before (
>>>> http://subclipse.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1047&dsMessageId=907463
>>>> ), but I'm not sure it was really resolved.
>>>>
>>>> In TortoiseSVN, there are a few whitespace-related options in the merge
>>>> dialogs:
>>>>
>>>> - Ignore line endings
>>>> - Compare whitespace
>>>> - Ignore whitespace changes
>>>> - Ignore all whitespaces
>>>>
>>>> (The last three are radios, BTW--mutually exclusive.)
>>>>
>>>> I routinely use the "ignore whitespace changes," and that affects
>>>> behavior at *merge* time. In other words, that tends to create fewer
>>>> conflicts when there are wholesale indentation changes going on.
>>>>
>>>> The option "Ignore whitespace" in Eclipse don't seem to behave the same
>>>> way; rather, it seems to affect what is *displayed* in the conflict
>>>> resolution diff, rather than affecting the behavior of the automated merge,
>>>> itself.
>>>>
>>>> After all these years, I still need TortoiseSVN in my toolbox because
>>>> of this feature; however, I'd love to drop it.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I've missed some option to emulate the *merge* (not
>>>> the diff viewing) behavior in Subclipse. Otherwise, please treat this as an
>>>> enhancement request.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jamie
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mark Phippard
>>> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
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