From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:34:53 GMT
Subject: Re: white spaces in a patch
Message-ID: <7vej07p84i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <dac45060812162331k19272488r4e95e0555e7a6db9@mail.gmail.com>

"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.