Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:03:57 -0500
> "Stavros Macrakis" <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Adding documentation to the CVS tree is a good idea as long, of
>> course, as it is correct.
>> Can you tell the cvs diff tool to ignore space? If not, changing
>> indentation makes it hard to compare versions.
>> Then again, even adding end-of-line comments makes comparisons harder.
>> Maybe best to stick to ;; and ;;; comments on separate lines.
>
> I don't think you can tell CVS to ignore space, sadly. My thought was
cvs diff -b -B
will ignore all changes in white space (-b) and blank lines (-B). This
assumes the diff you are using supports these options. GNU diff does.
Look at the manpage for your diff program to see what it supports.
Ray