Bug 171678 - [Viewers] Token diff treats space as significant
Summary: [Viewers] Token diff treats space as significant
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Compare (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Compare-Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Tomasz Zarna CLA
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Keywords: investigate
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Reported: 2007-01-25 10:00 EST by Michael Valenta CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:04 EDT (History)
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Description Michael Valenta CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2007-03-20 13:21:39 EDT 
Reopening due to bug 177947.
Comment 3 Tomasz Zarna CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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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