Matthijs Kooijman venit, vidit, dixit 15.12.2010 10:12: > Hi Michael, > >> If a wordRegex can make parts of diff disappear than there is problem >> deeper in the diff machinery. > It can do exactly that. The word regex determines what is a word, but > everything else is counted as "whitespace". The word diff view shows > only differences in words, not in whitespace (which is intentional, > since whitespace changes in things like LaTeX or HTML are not > interesting). Note that it doesn't show whitespace _differences_, but it > does show the whitespace itself (taken from the "new" version of the > file). Yep, I just found out myself experimenting with a wordRegex for csv. Seems like quite a "Gimme rope" feature... So, it's the regex. > So, if the word regex somehow doesn't match the second line at all (or > at least not the differen part), the differences could get ignored. > >> Can you trim this down to a minimal example? > That would be useful in any case. What strikes me is that both lines are semantically identical, yet one is treated correctly and the other isn't. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html