From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:58:46 +0000 Message-ID: <87povkv9xl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87ziupsl8z.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456430359 1494 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2016 19:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 20:59:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ244-0000le-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:59:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ243-0001wy-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ23s-0001wP-3Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ23o-0007Wu-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.15]:37783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ23o-0007WM-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2E4B1C1346 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 18353 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2016 19:58:47 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[93.107.21.90]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 25 Feb 2016 19:58:47 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87ziupsl8z.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:10:20 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.15 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109312 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Robert Thorpe writes: > >> Suppose a programmer makes a small change to a file. >> Then the above is run, because of whitespace changes >> that could lead to hundreds of changes. After that, >> how does anyone make sense of the VC annotated >> version of the file? > > It will be easier then before to make sense of that > file, because after the hundreds of changes it'll look > a lot better. Certainly the file itself will be better. Only slightly in my opinion, whitespace at the end of lines doesn't both me much. The question is what about the *VC annotated* file? If I blame a particular section of a file how do I know who wrote that code and when? The problem is I can't tell because any particular check-in could be a whitespace change. I'd actually have to start digging through older versions. Christian Kruse is correct that diffs can be handled, but they're not the only problem. BR, Robert Thorpe