Re: svn diff / blame -x --ignore-space-change doesn't ignore EOL style changes

No, I don't think that's correct.

--ignore-space-change: ignores changes in the amount of white-space,
but not ignoring "all white-space". This means that "having no
white-space" in not considered equal to "having white-space". Example:
"abc def" is considered equal to "abc def", but not equal to
"abcdef".

--ignore-all-space: ignores all differences in white-space, including
between "having no white-space" and "having white-space". I.e. "abc
 def" is considered equal to "abcdef".

The above two only apply to white-space, not to eol-style, if I'm not
mistaken. So the --ignore-eol-style is orthogonal.

Can't you just use both options?
    svn diff / blame -x --ignore-space-change -x --ignore-eol-style

Or, with the short option for ignoring space-change:
    svn diff / blame -x-b -x--ignore-eol-style

(I generally prefer using --ignore-space-change instead of
--ignore-all-space, because the latter can hide really important
changes, which change the semantics e.g. in most programming languages
or xml files and such).

Cheers,

-- 
Johan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> 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
>>
>