Re: [TSVN] Merging problem with TABs

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:53:11 +0200, Thomas Börkel <tbo@ap-ag.com> wrote:

> I am merging the changes from one file between 2 branches into my working copy. I only get a small conflict in one line, which I can easily resolve.
>
> Problem is, parts of the file has tabs for indentation in 1 branch only (I know, it's ugly that it's only in 1 branch and only partly, this was an accident).
>
> Those parts are not different between the 2 branches (I have set Tortoise to ignore whitespaces), but still, after the merge, I have those tabs in my working copy. Is this by intention or a bug? I thought, it should only put the changes between the 2 branches into my wc.
>
> If I merge with the command line svn and then edit the conflict with Tortoise, it still happens. So, I suspect the problem is with Tortoise.

If you set TortoiseMerge to ignore the whitespaces, then it will
_ignore_ the whitespaces (and as you know: tabs are whitespaces too).
So it just takes the tabs from one file and doesn't check if the other
file has spaces instead of tabs.
Don't ignore the whitespaces and you'll be fine.

Stefan

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