[issue2291] ignore whitespace on diff-producing or diff-based operations

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

Operations producing diffs or based on diffs should be able to ignore
whitespace changes, based on an additional command-line option.
My favourite targets for this would be "hg log -p" and "hg ann". This is
very useful when your project has had whitespace-changing or
indentation-changing commits (we have that in CPython).

For example, SVN allows "svn ann -x -w" which will ignore whitespace changes.

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messages: 13126
nosy: djc, pitrou
priority: wish
status: unread
title: ignore whitespace on diff-producing or diff-based operations

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