[PATCH] gitk: Add checkbutton to ignore space changes

Ignoring space changes can be helpful.  For example, a commit
claims to only reformat source code and you quickly want to
verify if this claim is true.  Or a commit accidentally changes
code formatting and you want to focus on the real changes.

In such cases a button to toggle of whitespace changes would be
quite handy.  You could quickly toggle between seeing and
ignoring whitespace changes.

This commit adds such a checkbutton right above the diff view.

However, in general it is a good thing to see whitespace changes
and therefore the state of the checkbutton is not saved. For
example, space changes might happen unintentionally.  But they are
real changes yielding different sha1s for the blobs involved.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 755596880d4793643a0b238b79927052f95bea45..dab9df067eb1f575002ae2123e60869bfe5e7d7f 100755 (executable)
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ proc makewindow {} {
     global findtype findtypemenu findloc findstring fstring geometry
     global entries sha1entry sha1string sha1but
     global diffcontextstring diffcontext
+    global ignorespace
     global maincursor textcursor curtextcursor
     global rowctxmenu fakerowmenu mergemax wrapcomment
     global highlight_files gdttype
@@ -849,6 +850,9 @@ proc makewindow {} {
     trace add variable diffcontextstring write diffcontextchange
     lappend entries .bleft.mid.diffcontext
     pack .bleft.mid.labeldiffcontext .bleft.mid.diffcontext -side left
+    checkbutton .bleft.mid.ignspace -text [mc "Ignore space change"] \
+       -command changeignorespace -variable ignorespace
+    pack .bleft.mid.ignspace -side left -padx 5
     set ctext .bleft.ctext
     text $ctext -background $bgcolor -foreground $fgcolor \
        -state disabled -font textfont \
@@ -5270,13 +5274,21 @@ proc diffcontextchange {n1 n2 op} {
     }
 }
 
+proc changeignorespace {} {
+    reselectline
+}
+
 proc getblobdiffs {ids} {
     global blobdifffd diffids env
     global diffinhdr treediffs
     global diffcontext
+    global ignorespace
     global limitdiffs viewfiles curview
 
     set cmd [diffcmd $ids "-p -C --no-commit-id -U$diffcontext"]
+    if {$ignorespace} {
+       append cmd " -w"
+    }
     if {$limitdiffs && $viewfiles($curview) ne {}} {
        set cmd [concat $cmd -- $viewfiles($curview)]
     }
@@ -8459,6 +8471,7 @@ set bgcolor white
 set fgcolor black
 set diffcolors {red "#00a000" blue}
 set diffcontext 3
+set ignorespace 0
 set selectbgcolor gray85
 
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