Re: [POSSIBLE VIRUS:###] gl2ps bug?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Sep 15, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Michael Godfrey wrote:
>> I looked quickly at this patch.  It seems to have many changes
>> whose effect is nothing. i.e. a line is replaced by an identical
>> line.   Is it possible that there was an error in building the
>> patch?  Some changes were also introduced, but it is hard to
>> isolate them from the "do nothing" changes.  In any case, it would
>> seem good to back it out until the problem can be isolated and a
>> patch which only makes changes can be generated.

On 15 September 2011 19:59, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> I agree. There are a lot of changes that appear to be "do nothing".
> Does anyone know why "hg diff" is detecting a change where there
> appears to be none?

It's whitespace. Do "hg diff -w" to omit whitespace changes.

- Jordi G. H.