From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:06:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] No diff -b/-w output for all-whitespace changes
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In-Reply-To: <1258665144-26520-1-git-send-email-gbacon@dbresearch.net>

Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net> writes:

> Change git-diff's whitespace-ignoring modes to generate
> output only if a non-empty patch results, which git-apply
> rejects.
>
> Update the tests to look for the new behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>

Thanks.

I didn't read the patch carefully, but I think this is the right thing to
do and is in the same sprit as jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-only-status topic.