[darcs-users] trailing whitespace

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:49:08PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> I guess that's sort of where darcs is doing something that other
> >>> vcs farm off to diff viewers.
> >>
> >> We do have a "darcs diff", but it's a lot slower than "darcs
> >> whatsnew" precisely because it does have to run a separate diff
> >> process, which entails setting up two working trees (or subsets
> >> thereof) appropriately.
> >
> > Yes, we can invoke a diff viewer, but that is different than what I
> > was referring to.  I meant for commands like record and pull that
> > show you the patch contents.
>
> Nod.  FWIW, I don't believe the git and hg equivalents of
> record/pull/changes -v/... use an external diff program.
> Just as an example,


I don't think you understand my point.

Do git and hq explicitly show you whitespace when you record and pull?  As
far as I know they don't.  Darcs does.  With VCS other than darcs, I expect
to use an external diff viewer to see explicit whitespace.  Darcs likes to
show it to you at record/pull even though, as far as I know, other vcs would
require you to use an external diff viewer to see the explicit whitespace.
Also, as far as I know, darcs doesn't allow you to *not* see explicit
whitespace for record/pull, unlike the external diff viewer I am used to.

Jason
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