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Re: white spaces in a patch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 17, 2008, 07:34 UTC
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"Mark Ryden" <markryde@gmail.com> writes:
> 1) Is there a way to check whether there are white spaces in this
> file without running git-apply?
"sed -n -e '/^+.*[ 	]$/p' patch.txt" perhaps?
> 2) Is there a way to get some messages about that there are white spaces
> when creating a git patch?

Doesn't "git diff" highlight whitespace errors? That way, you can catch errors before you make a commit that has them.

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