From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:48:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] core.whitespace: documentation updates. Message-ID: <1197776919-16121-1-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <7vodd4fb2f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> I wrote before: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:04:56AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > > > OK, I will go wild, but... very slowly. > > > > How wild are you these days ;-)? I know December is a busy time for > > everybody, and I ended up doing this myself while I was writing up the > > API documentation for gitattributes. > > Wow, thanks! Yes, I haven't done a thing on this. > > > -- >8 -- > > [PATCH] Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule > > > > The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what > > `diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in > > the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you > > finer > > control per path. > > That looks like what I'd hoped for. > > I'll set aside some time this weekend to play around with it. Erm, well, some weekend anyway. You can also pull the following from git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git master if you'd like. --b.