[ On , October 15, 2001 at 10:08:52 (-0400), Perry E. Metzger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/netinet6
>
> 
> itojun@iijlab.net writes:
> > >Sometimes I wonder whether a tool that actually ignored the whitespace
> > >in two files entirely and produced a diff that somehow avoided the
> > >entire issue of differing whitespace would be useful to us.
> > 
> > 	diff -b is, in some cases, useful, but not always.
> 
> -B as well, but what I'm looking for is something that will produce
> useful patches in the face of whitespace differences, which I
> don't think -b and -B will (though I should experiment more with them).

Hmmm... the problem in the latter though is not necessarily with the
input you'll use for diff or patch, but rather with how patch treats its
input, including both the diff and the file to be patched.  Try "patch -l".

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