Ignoring Whitespace in merge operations

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GregM
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Ignoring Whitespace in merge operations

Post by GregM » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:24 am

I discovered today that the Diff/Merge tool is set to ignore whitespace differences by default. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing for a Diff tool, but it's not a good thing to be doing when merging. I've had to manually fix the whitespace in many files because of this switch.

Since we use BeyondCompare for doing differences, it's not a big deal that this switch is shared between diff and merge, but I imagine that other users would want/need these settings to be separate.

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Re: Ignoring Whitespace in merge operations

Post by jclausius » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:48 am

GregM wrote:I discovered today that the Diff/Merge tool is set to ignore whitespace differences by default.
If anyone wants to change this behavior within SourceGear's Diff/Merge tool, this setting is controlled in the Tools -> Options dialog. Look for "Ignore Differences in Whitespace" in the File Comparison section.
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