test_source harmful?

[Ben Finney]

Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:

> 2009/2/27 Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au>:
> > For reference, GNU diff has these options:
> >
> >       -b  --ignore-space-change
> >              Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
> >
> >       -w  --ignore-all-space
> >              Ignore all white space.
> >
> >       -B  --ignore-blank-lines
> >              Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
> >
> 
> Yes, and none of those cause it to ignore only trailing whitespace.

My apologies, I wasn't sufficiently clear. I showed those options for
reference in choosing a name for the new option. It would (I presume)
be better to choose a name like ‘--ignore-trailing-space’ that fits
the theme already set by GNU diff's existing options.

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