Re: How to ignore space when using 'git send-email' command

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2009, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4otc8hy8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090716100926.GC6742@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:53:11PM -0700, n179911 wrote:
>
>> When i use 'git send-email' command how can I specify it to
>> 'ignore-all-space'?
>
> Have you tried:
>
>   git send-email --ignore-all-space origin
>
> ?
>
>> I see there is an 'ignore-all-space' option in 'git diff' and 'git
>> format-patch', but there is not such option for git send-email.
>
> There are two ways of running send-email:
>
>   1. format-patch your patches into a file or directory, and then
>      send-email on it. In this case, you need to --ignore-all-space when
>      doing the format-patch, which is what is generating the patches.
>
>   2. give send-email revision arguments, which are fed to format-patch
>      (which is what I showed above).  In this case, you can give
>      format-patch arguments directly to send-email.
>
> Does that help?

That may help but it is generally a bad idea to send a patch generated with ignore-all-spaces and other options, as it means that the receiving end will get changes that not even you the sender had any chance to test.