Omar Polo:

> The last patch from Mark reminded me that I thought some time ago to add
> a "-w" flag for got patch to ignore white spaces.  It's conceptually
> similar to patch(1) -l/--ignore-whitespace or git-apply(1)
> --ignore-whitespace.
> 
> The diff does exactly what one would expect.

Well, I'm dense.  What does "ignore whitespace" mean exactly?
Note that diff(1) has two ways to do this, -b and -w.

If I understand linecmp() correctly, it's like diff -w?

Meanwhile patch -l seems to be more like diff -b?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de