Re: [Codestriker-user] Creating subversion diffs ignoring whitespace changes

[David S. <si...@us...>]

Looks like it is possible, but the command line needs to be modified 
further.  Check out:

http://www.akatombo.com/index/en/comments/ignore_whitespace_in_a_subversion_diff/

Cheers,
David

Moisei Rabinovich wrote:
> Ohh, I assumed everybody knows that I use subversion not a CVS.
> Thanks for the tip anyway, I think, know where to go now.
> Even svn diff is missing this option natively, there is a way to use 
> 3-rd party diff that knows to ignore the white spaces.
> 
> On 8/8/06, *David Sitsky* <si...@us... 
> <mailto:si...@us...>> wrote:
> 
>     Moisei Rabinovich wrote:
>      > well, I probably miss some important point.
>      > codestriker generates a diff for me by itself, i only fill start-tag,
>      > end-tag and module.
>      > where should i set the "-b" option?
> 
>     If you always want to ignore whitespace changes, you can do this by
>     modifying lib/Codestriker/Repository/Cvs.pm, line 124.  Add the '-b'
>     option so that the code that used to be:
> 
>          my $pid = open3($write_stdin_fh, $read_stdout_fh, $read_stderr_fh,
>                         $Codestriker::cvs, '-q', '-d', $self->{url},
>                         'rdiff', $extra_options, '-u',
>                         '-r', $start_tag, '-r', $end_tag, $module_name);
> 
>     Looks like:
> 
>          my $pid = open3($write_stdin_fh, $read_stdout_fh, $read_stderr_fh,
>                         $Codestriker::cvs, '-q', '-d', $self->{url},
>                         'rdiff', $extra_options, '-u', '-b',
>                         '-r', $start_tag, '-r', $end_tag, $module_name);
> 
>     ie - the -b option has been added.
> 
>      > also I am not sure @exclude_file_types is taken into account in
>     this case
> 
>     It should be.  The same filtering code is run, regardless of whether or
>     not Codestriker generated the diff text, or it was supplied by the
>     user.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Moisei