From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:10:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Highlighting whitespace on removal with git diff
Message-ID: <7v4ochxuld.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <D058D986-2A83-4979-A461-F7CB34EF9448@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> The highlight isn't telling you what changed on the line. It's telling
> you that this added line has trailing whitespace, and your
> core.whitespace config value is set such that this is considered an
> error.
>
> -Kevin Ballard

Which means that, in order to check for a whitespace error you removed in
your change, you can give "-R" (reverse) option to your "git diff".