From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] No diff -b/-w output for all-whitespace changes
Message-ID: <4B05C5CA.6090408@dbresearch.net>
In-Reply-To: <200911192314.41542.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote

> Judging from the test, this parses as
> 
>   Change git-diff's whitespace-ignoring modes to generate
>   output only if a non-(empty patch, which git-apply
>   rejects) results.
> 
> which is a bit weird, isn't it? :-)

Yes, rotten wording. I meant git-apply rejects empty patches,
so let's not do that!

I chose this route rather than making git-apply more
forgiving because as currently implemented, git-diff is not
entirely ignoring whitespace when commanded to do so.

Greg