Re: BUG: TortoiseMerge "Ignore case changes" option is broken

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:52:13PM -0600, wrote:
> Yes, I agree that the "Ignore case changes" is pretty useless as it is.
> That option should behave as "diff -i" does:

FWIW, I tried looking into fixing this myself, and it turns out that
TortoiseMerge doesn't implement the diff algorithm itself--it relies on a
SVN library to do the real work, and SVN doesn't support case-insensitive
diffs. TortoiseMerge's "Ignore case changes" is a bit of a kludge to
simply not highlight case changes in the changes that SVN's diff returns.

I found this thread about adding various enhancements to svn diff:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-02/0259.shtml , but it looks like
it was decided to not add case-insensitivity due to encoding and locale
problems--the diff algorithm first has to know the encoding of the file
in order to do a case-insensitive compare, but apparently SVN doesn't
have that info. But even if it did, what constitutes a case-insensitive
comparison depends on your locale too. As an example, in Turkish,
lowercase "i" and uppercase "I" do not compare the same--the uppercase
version of "i" is "I" with a dot on top, and the lowercase version of
"I" is "i" without the dot on top.

That said, I personally only need support for ASCII encoding and
English...

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