Question

Is there way in svn diff or any other tool(linux based) to show only whitespace/tabs changes ?.

Purpose, I dont want those diffs to be checked in. I can put back those lines to same state before check in if a tool could catch those diffs.

Thanks,

Answer 1

This should work for you.

#!/bin/bash

FILES=`svn status | awk '{ print $2}'`
for file in $FILES
do
    COUNT=`svn diff $file --diff-cmd 'diff' -x '-w' | wc -l`
    if [ $COUNT -le 2 ]
    then
       echo "$file has only whitespace changes"
    fi
done

Also, instead of putting lines back to the same state, why not just revert those files?