On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Daniel Nslund wrote:
> If we would implement --ignore-whitespaces to have the behaviour you
> suggested we would have to rewrite the parts dealing with
> modified_stream to make us able to distinguish between context lines and
> added lines. At the moment, we filter out the leading characters (' ',
> '+', '-') before writing to the streams.Yes, I understand that implementing the "better" behaviour is a lot more work. Perhaps it would be reasonable to implement the easier algorithm first, and clearly document it's limitations. > In my world, I would probably just ask the submitter to retransmit the > patch using some other mail software. I have sometimes taken patches from web pages where communicating with the author is not easy. But svn doesn't have to solve this problem; we have external tools for patching and editing. --apb (Alan Barrett)
