qdiff: ability to set default value for "ignore whitespace"

[Francois Trahan]

Every time I use qdiff, I have to change the tab size and switch on "Ignore whitespace changes". It would be interesting to have a mean of setting the defaults.

  bzr 2.4.1
  qbzr 0.21.1
  Python 2.7.1
  Platform: Linux-2.6.38-11-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-11.04-natty

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Francois Trahan пишет:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Every time I use qdiff, I have to change the tab size and switch on
> "Ignore whitespace changes". It would be interesting to have a mean of
> setting the defaults.

You can set the default tab size using qconfig.

You can set-up alias

qdiff = qdiff --ignore-whitespace

to have this option always on. I'm not sure is it worth to put that
one in the config though.

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[Francois Trahan (francois-trahan)]

Thanks for the tab with, I didn't realize it was actually there.

For the whitespace, the problem with aliases is that it is not reflected when you click your way to the diff dialog from another one (per example, when consulting the log via qlog). Changing aliases, custom tools and other stuff makes for a laborious switch between the two behaviours...

[Chinoto Vokro (chinoto-gon)]

Whenever I look at a qdiff, I always turn on --ignore-whitespace (-w), it helps a lot when I decide to fix the indentation on large chunks of code.
Somewhat related: qdiff crashes if you toggle ignore-whitespace before it is done generating a diff. It doesn't matter when run from terminal since I can specify "-w", but I have to wait when invoking it from [qlog, qcommit, qrevert] to avoid crashing it, which can take awhile if there are a lot of changes. Though the bug itself should be fixed, it would be enough for me to be able to set a default for ignore-whitespace.

openSUSE 12.2
qbzr | 0.21.1-1.1 | x86_64 | devel:tools:scm
I know there are newer versions, but there aren't in openSUSE's repos yet.