Thanks Mark.
I actually just noticed a command line flag that can be used to
achieve what I want.
'svn merge -x -b http://url/goes/here@30 http://url/goes/here@35 .'
The -x -b tells svn to not bother merging in differences in whitespace.
I'm sure this could make a mess of things for other people, but in
this case it's exactly what I want.
On 4/3/07, Mark Clements <gmane@kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
> "Aidan Kane" <temp@scue.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:b8f454b60704030632l6d70ce25p9e62eb9528b8bc7@mail.gmail.com...
> > does anyone know if it's possible to preform a merge but to exclude
> > changes to trailing whitespace?
> >
> > someone has committed a number of changes to the repository after
> > having used a feature of eclipse that trims trailing whitespace from
> > the ends of lines. unfortunately this means that it's now very
> > difficult to see where the actual work was done. furthermore it's
> > going to make comparing code prior to this revision that any code that
> > we change later.
>
> Well, you need to decide whether the whitespace is correct or not. That's
> what merging is - deciding which of the changes is correct, therefore by
> definition this is not possible to 'ignore' any changes to a file.
>
> If, however, you mean is it possible to view the difference between the two
> versions ignoring whitespace changes, then yes. I use WinMerge which has an
> option to ignore whitespace differences, but I'm sure most diff software has
> a similar feature if you know where to look.
>
> - Mark Clements
>
>
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