I was working on a project and changed some files. NetBeans showed me several files had been modified compared to the latest versions from the versioning control system. But when I wanted to see the differences using the diff viewer in NetBeans I saw no changes. I turned out the only change had been in whitespace and by default NetBeans doesn't show the whitespace differences. The following figure doesn't show any change, but the change is there:
We can disable this so we can see all the changes to a file, even whitespace differences. We need to go to Tools | Options | Miscellaneous | DIff. Now we can uncheck the checkbox Ignore Whitespaces:
The diff viewer will now show the extra spaces added to line 12:
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Hi,
My name is Varun Nischal and I'm the NetBeans Community Docs Contribution Coordinator. Your blog entry would make a fantastic tips and tricks for our Community Docs wiki (http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs).
Would you be willing to contribute it? If you need any help or have any questions, please contact me at nvarun@netbeans.org
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Varun Nischal
http://nb-community-docs.blogspot.com/
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Hi,
it is at http://wiki.netbeans.org/EnableWhitespaceForDiff.
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