Bug 28714 - Ignore whitespace should be able to ignore linebreaks
Summary: Ignore whitespace should be able to ignore linebreaks
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Compare (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.2   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Compare-Inbox CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
Keywords: helpwanted
: 284710 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-12-20 04:46 EST by Oyvind Harboe CLA
Modified: 2019-11-27 07:11 EST (History)
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Description Oyvind Harboe CLA 2002-12-20 04:46:09 EST 
Rationale: it can be tedious to do a diff against the CVS repository after code 
reformatting(which can introduce linebreaks).
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-01-20 07:45:56 EST 
too hard for 2.1
Comment 2 Szymon Brandys CLA 2009-07-27 10:17:10 EDT 
*** Bug 284710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Szymon Brandys CLA 2009-07-27 10:18:03 EDT 
RESOLVED LATER is deprecated.
Comment 4 DJ Houghton CLA 2013-09-09 10:56:58 EDT 
Hi Szymon, is this something that could be looked at now? I chatted briefly with Paul and he mentioned that the current diff used a line-based strategy. Is there a possibility that Eclipse could ship a word-based algorithm to find differences?
Comment 5 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-27 07:11:23 EST 
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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