AIUI, --ignore-eol-style + --ignore-space-change == --ignore-all-space. It seems to me that --ignore-all-space would work for your use case?
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:44 +0300, "Stanimir Stamenkov" <s7an10_at_netscape.net> wrote:
> The '--ignore-space-change' option, and '--ignore-all-space' for
> that matter, to the 'diff' and 'blame' commands doesn't seem to
> ignore changes in the EOL style. I really expect each of:
>
> --ignore-eol-style
> --ignore-space-change
> --ignore-all-space
>
> in the given order to include the effect of the previous one. There
> are many files which get initially created on Windows with CRLF
> line-endings, but without the 'svn:eol-style=native' property set.
> Then at some revision this property gets set and it gets very
> difficult track/find the origin of past changes, onwards. The
> problem gets messier when the EOL style changes to LF and CRLF
> number of times before the 'svn:eol-style' gets properly set.
>
> Now, one could think:
>
> svn diff / blame -x --ignore-eol-style ...
>
> should be sufficient. But then often I need to use:
>
> svn diff / blame -x --ignore-space-change ...
>
> to ignore any space changes, e.g. changes to "tabs vs. spaces-only"
> to the indentation (and elsewhere), which becomes impossible once
> the file has changed the EOL style number of times.
>
> Is the current behavior of the space ignoring options intended, or
> it appears omission?
>
> FWIW, I'm on Windows and I workaround the problem by having
> installed the 'diff' command from the GnuWin32 [1] packages, which
> doesn't seem to care about EOL style differences (treats them as equal):
>
> svn diff / blame --diff-cmd diff -x "--ignore-space-change ..." ...
>
> It would be really nice if the SVN default internal diff
> implementation adds the effect of '--ignore-eol-style' to the
> '--ignore-space-change' and '--ignore-all-space' options.
>
> [1] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Stanimir
>
Received on 2011-04-20 20:04:06 CEST