[dev] [cvs|of topic] How to prevent white spaces conflict on CVS update

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:36:21 -0500


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> The only thing that comes to my mind is to generate a patch file by 
> redirecting the output of a cvs diff command ignoring whitespaces. You can 
> then use patch to apply this file against the files that need merging.

CVS will still know the files are different, though.

-chuck

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