329924 - ignore-whitespace option in interdiff page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 285814

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, enhancement)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

As a frequent reviewer of patches, one thing that would help me A LOT
would be the ability to view the difference between two patches 
*ignoring whitespace changes*.

For example, look at this interdiff output:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?oldid=213867&action=interdiff&newid=213909&headers=1

The difference between those two patches is primarily a change in indentation 
of many lines, that is, only whitespace changes. But a few lines had 
non-whitespace changes as well.  I can't see the lines that had non-whitespace 
changes because they're buried in all those whitespace changes.  

So, I'd like to have a checkbox that says "ignore whitespace" by the 
diff button on the page
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=213909&action=diff

The page/script http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi has this feature.
I'd REALLY like to see it in 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?action=interdiff too.

Comment 1

[victory <[e-mail]>]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329923 ***

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Not a duplicate.  
One bug concerns the "action=diff".
The other concerns "action=interdiff".
Fixing one will not fix the other.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The other concerns "action=interdiff".

Reread what you wrote in bug 285814 comment 1. You already talked about interdiff in it. We (the Bugzilla team) are not completely blind. We also read comments. ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 285814 ***