| Ignore Whitespace works incorrectly for comparison? [message #337043] |
Thu, 23 July 2009 11:25 |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I had encountered some problem with comparision of 2 files (or 2
revisions).
This happens if files have different line ending (one is Unix, second is
Windows).
Let's assume I have the first file as
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if(A)
{
doA()
}
if(B)
{
doB()
}
if(C)
{
doC()
}
do(D)
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This files have Unix-style line termination.
Second one is
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if(A)
{
doA()
}
if(C)
{
doC()
}
if(E)
{
doE()
}
do(D)
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This file uses Windows-style line ending
If you try to compare these files with Eclipse, you will see that it
marked whole file as one big change. If you turn on whitespace ignoring,
it will still show some hard-to-understand difference, whereas Beyond
Compare (I suppose and most others) will show that
if(B)
{
doB()
}
was deleted and
if(E)
{
doE()
}
was inserted.
Is't this a bug? In any case, I suppose comparision should be improved in
this case...
Dmitry
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