Re: [Tools-discuss] rfcdiff lies

[Henrik Levkowetz <henrik at levkowetz.com>]

On 2009-09-21 15:39 Carsten Bormann said the following:
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:32, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> 
>> I've made an experimental update of rfcdiff which doesn't consider  
>> white-
>> space significant

(s/significant/insignificant)

> Thanks!
> 
> As you can see from section 1.1, this adds a bit of noise, but also  
> makes the result more comprehensible (pure whitespace changes were not  
> echoed in the right column, so when an actual change intervenes, the  
> indentation becomes strange).

Yes.  That was a known problem, but I didn't have a good solution to
it earlier.  The problem you pointed out made not ignoring whitespace
changes at all an option, which also fixes the wrong indentation.

> I think it is correct to err on the side of not losing changes, so I  
> applaud this modification.

Ok, good.  If others don't come up with major reservations, I'll make
a regular release shortly.

> That went fast, by the way!

Thanks :-)


Best,

	Henrik

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