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Re: Visual Merge - few issues...

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:50:51 +0200

Thomas Lehmann wrote:
>> Only if you have "show whitespaces" activated, you can see a dot for a
>> space and an arrow for a tab. Otherwise a tab will look identical to
>> four spaces.
>
> ....but when saying "ignore whitespaces" I don't expect a difference
> also there is one (only in whitespaces)!
> Am I wrong?

Since a lot of users get very confused if the option "ignore
whitespaces" is on and they know that there are differences (e.g., the
commit dialog shows the files as modified or they got a conflict during
an update or ...), the whitespace-only-diff icon is shown anyway.

Stefan

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