Re: normalizing files and old revisions

[Mike Castle]

Sorry if this is a duplicate.  My sendmail update didn't go as smooth as
I'd thought.  :-/

In article <address@hidden>,
Andreas Klauer  <address@hidden> wrote:
>The repository already contains files which use tabs, CRLF, et cetera. 
>Corresponding diffs to old revisions already contain loads of unnecessary 
>whitespace changes. I'd like to get rid of these diffs, to make comparisons 
>between never revisions (which use filter) and older revisions (which didn't 
>have the filter) possible without getting all this whitespace changes junk.


address@hidden:25am]~(501) cvs diff --help
  -w  --ignore-all-space  Ignore all white space.
  -b  --ignore-space-change  Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
  -B  --ignore-blank-lines  Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.


I suspect those options should provide you with enough control to avoid the
necessity of those changes.

As an SCM person, I look upon a change such as this with agast.  It's
equivalent to outdating a version of a file that has a bug in it.  You
simply don't do that!

mrc
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