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Enable passing '-w'/'--ignore-all-space' diff options #100
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I tried looking through the source code to see if this was an available option, but I couldn't find it if it is. I tried to follow the code to see where the actual diffing takes place and whether my python-fu would be up to submitting a pull request. My understanding ran into a dead-end in localfilediff.py
On reflection, maybe this request should be "enable passing diff options from command line to diffing engine"
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danvk commentedon Apr 24, 2015
The diffing actually gets done in JavaScript, by codediff.js.
Is
-wsomething you'd usually pass togit difftool?rfagen commentedon Apr 24, 2015
Hm. I don't normally use "git difftool", but the man page says that it implements all the options for "git diff" (one of which is '-w' for ignoring whitespace diffs). However, when I try to use "git difftool" it doesn't appear to be passing options along. I tried:
git difftool -w -x "diff"git difftool -x "diff " -wand neither ignored a whitespace diff in my sample file. When I tried:
git difftool -x "diff -w "the diff did ignore the whitespace. Just to be paranoid, I also tried:
git -w difftool -x "diff "and got "unknown option", so I had the -w in the right place.
I guess I was coming from
difforgit diffinstead of specifically coming fromgit difftool. The first two have mostly had the same usage up until now :)Either way, the point may be moot if difftool isn't passing options like the manpage suggests it does.
I don't think I see a straightforward win here, so feel free to close this.
danvk commentedon Sep 6, 2022
Closing this in favor of #129