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Johannes Sixt	0e098b6d79	Make test case number unique Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	16 years ago
Junio C Hamano	f245194f9a	diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options Traditionally, the --ignore-whitespace* options have merely meant to tell the diff output routine that some class of differences are not worth showing in the textual diff output, so that the end user has easier time to review the remaining (presumably more meaningful) changes. These options never affected the outcome of the command, given as the exit status when the --exit-code option was in effect (either directly or indirectly). When you have only whitespace changes, however, you might expect git diff -b --exit-code to report that there is _no_ change with zero exit status. Change the semantics of --ignore-whitespace* options to mean more than "omit showing the difference in text". The exit status, when --exit-code is in effect, is computed by checking if we found any differences at the path level, while diff frontends feed filepairs to the diffcore engine. When "ignore whitespace" options are in effect, we defer this determination until the very end of diffcore transformation. We simply do not know until the textual diff is generated, which comes very late in the pipeline. When --quiet is in effect, various diff frontends optimize by breaking out early from the loop that enumerates the filepairs, when we find the first path level difference; when --ignore-whitespace* is used the above change automatically disables this optimization. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	16 years ago

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Johannes Sixt

0e098b6d79

Make test case number unique

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

16 years ago

Junio C Hamano

f245194f9a

diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options

Traditionally, the --ignore-whitespace* options have merely meant to tell
the diff output routine that some class of differences are not worth
showing in the textual diff output, so that the end user has easier time
to review the remaining (presumably more meaningful) changes.  These
options never affected the outcome of the command, given as the exit
status when the --exit-code option was in effect (either directly or
indirectly).

When you have only whitespace changes, however, you might expect

	git diff -b --exit-code

to report that there is _no_ change with zero exit status.

Change the semantics of --ignore-whitespace* options to mean more than
"omit showing the difference in text".

The exit status, when --exit-code is in effect, is computed by checking if
we found any differences at the path level, while diff frontends feed
filepairs to the diffcore engine.  When "ignore whitespace" options are in
effect, we defer this determination until the very end of diffcore
transformation.  We simply do not know until the textual diff is
generated, which comes very late in the pipeline.

When --quiet is in effect, various diff frontends optimize by breaking out
early from the loop that enumerates the filepairs, when we find the first
path level difference; when --ignore-whitespace* is used the above change
automatically disables this optimization.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

16 years ago

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