Can CVS and Subversion be set to ignore whitespace in merging?

Question

CVS and Subversion both have a handy merge feature so that when you update a source file that you have modified, it merges in changes that others have made on the same file.

Answer 1

For SVN: In commandline tool, there is the option -x which you can set to "b" or "w" to ignore space changes resp. all spaces.
You can also supply a third party tool for doing the merges. So if you have a merger which ignores whitespaces, you can use this one. TortoiseSVN, as always, is a frontend to all parameters, so it will support for ignoring whitespaces as well.

The svn merge command is described here. The option you need is --diff3-cmd