[darcs-users] trailing whitespace

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Wed May 13 19:27:30 UTC 2009


On Wed, 13 May 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:

> I guess that's sort of where darcs is doing something that other vcs 
> farm off to diff viewers.  From experience where we use svn at work, we 
> use a separate program to view diffs that allows you to see whitespace 
> and also to ignore differences that vary only by whitespace.

Well, you still need to record/commit the whitespace differences, which 
can lead to annoying conflicts later. So it's worth being told about them 
now so you can remove them, IMO.

Cheers,

Ganesh


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