How do you get Eclipse's built-in diff tool to ignore differences in whitespace?
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I'm working on a large codebase that's been touched by many hands. As I work through bugs, I've been converting the source to be more readable which involves a lot of minor changes in indentation depth. Unfortunately this makes all the changes that pertain to a bugfix completely hidden in the mess …
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In Eclipse, go to Window > Preferences. Then search for "patch" and click on General > Compare/Patch. Check Ignore white space. Now only the details that matter in the diff will show up.
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