Bug 171678

Summary:	[Viewers] Token diff treats space as significant
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Michael Valenta <Michael.Valenta>
Component:	Compare	Assignee:	Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:	Tomasz Zarna <tomasz.zarna>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Szymon.Brandys, tomasz.zarna
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	investigate
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Michael Valenta

2007-01-25 10:00:35 EST

The token diff used by the text merge viewer treats spaces as significant. What this means is that a line like "a = b" would result is three token diffs when compared with "c + d" even though it is really a complete change.

Comment 1 Michael Valenta

2007-02-22 16:18:59 EST

It turns out TextMergeViewer already had a USE_MERGING_TOKEN_DIFF flag. Setting it to true fixed the problem.

Comment 2 Michael Valenta

2007-03-20 13:21:39 EDT

Reopening due to bug 177947.

Comment 3 Tomasz Zarna

2008-04-16 09:56:07 EDT

We had no time to investigate it further. Will try to do it during 3.5.

Comment 4 Tomasz Zarna

2009-04-10 04:08:12 EDT

Sorry, not enough time to investigate it during 3.5, postponing until 3.6.

Comment 5 Tomasz Zarna

2010-01-28 08:14:05 EST

Even though it's an interesting issue, we do not plan to fix this in the nearest future. I'm removing the target milestone to better match the reality.

Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:04:41 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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