We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.
Date: 13:27 on 22 Dec 2006

I use a GUI program showing differences between files in order to commit the 
changes to a revision control system. I don't want to see diffs in whitespace.

Quiz: how did I tell the program to ignore these diffs?

1. Pressed a button
2. Passed a command-line flag
3. Set an environment variable
4. Ran it under strace, found out that it runs a version of diff (apparently a 
copy of GNU diff with the bug report address stripped from the help message), 
copied the entire installation to my home directory, and replaced their diff 
with a script running diff with -b

If you chose 4, you might be familiar with BitKeeper, the source control system 
Linux fans used to love. That was before BitMover, having them hooked, stopped 
giving the shitty thing away and required them to pay a shitload of money. The 
way they always did with companies infested with enough Linux fans to promote 
the program.

Well, I guess BitKeeper is right - whitespace matters in Makefiles, Python 
scripts and ASCII art.

P.S. SourceSafe is worse than BitKeeper, and Microsoft is evil, stupid and stinky.

We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat. Yossi Kreinin 13:27 on 22 Dec 2006
- Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat. Abigail 13:32 on 22 Dec 2006
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- Jonathan Stowe 13:57 on 22 Dec 2006
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Peter da Silva 15:55 on 22 Dec 2006
Yossi Kreinin 11:31 on 23 Dec 2006
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Yossi Kreinin 09:57 on 27 Dec 2006
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- Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat. peter (Peter da Silva) 15:40 on 27 Dec 2006
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- Aaron J. Grier 19:15 on 28 Dec 2006
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