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Comparing files from "Unstaged Changes" showing whitespace which should not be there [message #1806011]

Tue, 30 April 2019 13:10

Sander Hoevers

Messages: 1
Registered: April 2019

Junior Member

We started switching from eclipse oxygen (4.7.0) to eclipse 2019-03.

There is one thing we find rather inconvenient in the Git Staging view.

When changed files are in the "Unstaged Changes" view. And a compare is done then whitespace changes are shown which are not there.
E.g. when on commandline a git diff is performed, no changes are shown, except for the change made manually.

This makes a diff in the "unstaged changes" view hard to use.

When changed files are in the "Staged Changes" view. And a compare is done. The diff is shown correctly.

The behavior of the eclipse oxygen was different. E.g.It is showing just the made changes. There were no problems with the white space characters in the diff. Just like on the commandline.

Configuration:
OS: windows
autocrlf = input
Setting in Preferences::General::Compare/Patch "Ignore white space" is unchecked.
All files in our git respository are store with only LF.
Setting in Preferences::General::Workspace "New text file line delimiter" is Unix.

What could be the issue?

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