From: Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists) <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:28:59 GMT
Subject: Re: How to fix (and find) many git-* --check errors?
Message-ID: <489D473B.3090406@sneakemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viqubcnop.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano gitster-at-pobox.com |Lists| wrote:
> Starting from a clean checkout, you could do something like this:
> 
> 	$ git reset --hard
>         $ rm .git/index
>         $ git diff --binary -R HEAD >P.diff
>         $ git apply --whitespace=fix --cached <P.diff
> 	$ git commit -m "Fixed all whitespace gotchas"
> 
> P.diff contains essentially everything, and you are recreating everything
> from that patch.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my many mails and questions. It 
really is helpful to me.

Rambling on:

Scary with the "rm .git/index"! It bascially creates an empty index it 
seems... That was news to me. As a newbie I try not to meddle too much 
in .git/ ...

I tried the above on git.git, and it gave:
warning: 485 lines applied after fixing whitespace errors.

I would suggest finishing the above with:
$ git checkout HEAD
otherwise, the working dir is stuck at the old unfixed state.

But like I posted earlier, I have another solution that works on 
selected files. With git, there is always more than one way to do 
things, it seems...

Peter
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