From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco Potorti` Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:09:18 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301312148.h0VLmG128712@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044872546 13879 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 10:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iB4z-0003bj-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:22:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18iBFv-00035v-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:33:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iB2A-00087p-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iB02-00078h-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iAwB-00060k-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from pot.cnuce.cnr.it ([146.48.83.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iAsM-00056d-00; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from pot by pot.cnuce.cnr.it with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18iAsI-0000vb-00; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:09:18 +0100 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp) X-fingerprint: 4B2 6187 5C3 D6B1 2E31 7666 9DF 2DC9 BE21 6115 Original-cc: Stefan Monnier X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11532 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11532 >Um, no. `diff -b' is only appropriate when generating patches for >humans to look at*, not for merging (and things like CVS don't allow such >behavior anyway). Uh. I meant that, when looking at diffs, I always use -b. When merging, spaces have never affected me, because ediff and emerge tell you where the difference is, and even let you know when a diff is only made of whitespace. This is not to say that the annoyance is not there, just to say that you can overcome it quite easily, and in my case it never bothered me, as far as source code is concerned, but YMMV.