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Re: Rebase & Trailing Whitespace

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Sep 1, 2011, 21:00 UTC
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From: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:55:03PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
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> problems that still exist in your current tree, you can diff against the
> empty tree with --check, like:
>
>  git diff --check 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
>
> where "4b825dc..." is the well-known sha1 of an empty tree[1].
>
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> [1] If you don't remember the empty tree sha1, you can always derive it
>    with:
>
>        git hash-object -t tree /dev/null
>

I've added this tip to the https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases page

Philip 
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Message 3 of 8 in “Rebase & Trailing Whitespace”
  1. Hilco WijbengaAug 31, 2011
  2. Jeff KingSep 1, 2011
  3. Philip OakleySep 1, 2011
  4. Jeff KingSep 1, 2011
  5. Michael J GruberSep 2, 2011
  6. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  7. Clemens BuchacherSep 3, 2011
  8. Jeff KingSep 9, 2011

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