[issue3186] hg diff option to ignore capitalization differences.

Bill Schauer bugs at mercurial.selenic.com
Thu Jan 5 13:22:08 CST 2012


New submission from Bill Schauer <Bill.Schauer at freescale.com>:

UNIX users may have little use for this option but I keep running into it 
on Windows, which is not case sensitive. A particular offender is Excel. 
Excel has the facility to output it's sheets in text format. 
Unfortunately, for the Basic modules it does not consistently use the same 
choice for capitalization. Sometimes it will write out "the.hwd" and at 
other sometimes "The.Hwd". This makes diffs a mass of irrelevant changes. 
This makes it difficult to find a real difference amongst all the 
irrelevant ones. We are often just reduced to checking the files visually 
line by line. We have found no way to control this though Excel. Please 
consider. Almost all the diff programs that I have used have this option. 
This problem alone my cause us to abandon Mercurial for revision control. 
That would be a shame because otherwise we have found it to be almost 
ideal for our particular projects.

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messages: 18505
nosy: bills0
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status: unread
title: hg diff option to ignore capitalization differences.
topic: diff

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