[XForms] So, what now?

[Todd Denniston]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 
<SNIP>
> - we have to check whether the code has been hacked. I wonder who
>   could do that, but... The diffs since last trusted version are at
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/changsets/xforms-changes.tar.gz
> 
>   Unfortunately, it seems that there has been a lot of whitespace
>   changes, and this makes checking very boring. I do not know of a way
>   to change the diffs to ignore such garbage.
pass the -w option to gnu diff,
-w     Ignore white space when comparing lines.
`diff -w [other options]` or `cvs diff -w [other options]`
if there is both a white space and real change the line will still show as a
diff.

>
<SNIP>
you may also want: from diff man page
-b     Ignore changes in amount of white space.

-B     Ignore  changes  that  just  insert or delete blank
              lines.
--ignore-blank-lines
              Ignore changes that just  insert  or  delete  blank
              lines.
--ignore-space-change
              Ignore changes in amount of white space.
or
--ignore-all-space
              Ignore white space when comparing lines.

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Todd Denniston
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