On 2010-11-04, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > It exists because so many people change whitespace intentionally in C > source code because no two C programmers seem able to agree on how to > format code. Diff -b allows you to attempt to ignore semantically > null stylistic changes made by programmers.
I don't agree with this interpretation, just because the changes it filters out are hardly ever intentional when I actually look at them. They're a mix of space/tab changes which don't affect actual indentation, trailing whitespace, and the like. The kinds of changes that would be made by C programmers trying to change source formatting are usually far beyond what "diff -b" would "fix". -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
