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FileMerge "compress white space" not applied on folders?


  • Subject: FileMerge "compress white space" not applied on folders?
  • From: Ashley Ward <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:09:25 +0100

I'm constructing a svn source code archive from a collection of old tar balls and RCS history, and am using FileMerge a lot to compare folder states from different points in time.

It seems to me that FileMerge's useful "Compress white space" feature is not applied in the folder view: files with only white-space differences are listed as having >0 differences in the folder view, but when I choose View -> Comparison, the resulting file comparison window shows "status: 0 differences".

Should I report this as a bug, or am I perhaps missing something? Help appreciated.

Ashley.


Test case:

1) Create the following folder hierarchy:
  FileMergeTest/
  FileMergeTest/one/
  FileMergeTest/one/file.txt
  FileMergeTest/two/
  FileMergeTest/two/file.txt

2) Make files one/file.txt and two/file.txt differ only in white space, eg contents of one is "hello world", the other "hello world" (ie with two spaces).

3) Open FileMerge, check "Compress white space" in preferences.

4) Compare Files in FileMerge, choose the folders one and two. Press Compare.

5) file.txt appears in the folder comparison view, listed as "status: 1 difference". Here, I was expecting 0 differences.

6) Choose View -> Comparison, note that the file has "status: 0 differences", as I was expecting.

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