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Bug 28714

Summary:	Ignore whitespace should be able to ignore linebreaks
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Oyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe>
Component:	Compare	Assignee:	Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	dj.houghton, eclipse-bugs, pwebster
Version:	2.0.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Oyvind Harboe

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

2003-01-20 07:45:56 EST

too hard for 2.1

Comment 2 Szymon Brandys

2009-07-27 10:17:10 EDT

*** Bug 284710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Szymon Brandys

2009-07-27 10:18:03 EDT

RESOLVED LATER is deprecated.

Comment 4 DJ Houghton

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

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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it.
The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you
still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is
(for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.