( )⚙ D2683 xdiff: remove whitespace related feature

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xdiff: remove whitespace related feature
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Authored by quark on Mar 4 2018, 7:50 PM.

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Summary

In Mercurial, whitespace related handling are done at a higher level than
the low-level diff algorithm so "ignore spaces". So it's not used by mdiff.
Some of the upcoming optimizations would be more difficult with whitespace
related features kept. So let's remove them.

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Event Timeline

quark created this revision.Mar 4 2018, 7:50 PM
quark abandoned this revision.Mar 4 2018, 8:09 PM
quark updated this revision to Diff 6681.Mar 6 2018, 9:52 PM
indygreg accepted this revision.Mar 6 2018, 10:06 PM
indygreg added a subscriber: indygreg.

I *love* patches that only remove code.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 6 2018, 10:06 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.