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On 2010-11-04, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> It exists because so many people change whitespace intentionally in C
> source code because no two C programmers seem able to agree on how to
> format code.  Diff -b allows you to attempt to ignore semantically
> null stylistic changes made by programmers.

I don't agree with this interpretation, just because the changes it
filters out are hardly ever intentional when I actually look at them.

They're a mix of space/tab changes which don't affect actual indentation,
trailing whitespace, and the like.

The kinds of changes that would be made by C programmers trying to change
source formatting are usually far beyond what "diff -b" would "fix".

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