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Re: How do I get git-format-patch to ignore changes that remove spaces from the end of the line?

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TTTimur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2007, 22:36 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> You could revert the change to the editor configuration and rely
> on "git diff" before committing to point out the whitespace
> breakage that you newly introduced to the file.  Then you would
> be sending out exactly what you changed.
Thanks, but I was hoping that git would make my life easier, not more difficult.
-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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  4. teach diff machinery about --ignore-space-at-eolJohannes Schindelin, Feb 14, 2007
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