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Re: Whitespace and '&nbsp'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 27, 2011, 18:31 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> Now, very arguably this is not a git issue at all. Having the odd nbsp
> be more visible in my other tools would have been fine - either 'less'
> showing it (the way it shows other control characters) or my terminal
> making some visual distinction. That said, I think it's something that
> git could perhaps protect against a bit.

Yeah. I would have expected that "git log -p" would at least show after the fact, relying on "less" being aware about it, but that does not seem to be the case. Setting my pager to "cat -e" is the only workaround I can think of right now (shows "M-BM- " there), but of course that wouldn't be practical at all. We want to notice this during patch application.

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Message 6 of 15 in “Whitespace and '&nbsp'”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2011
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  4. Andreas SchwabMay 27, 2011
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  10. 1/3 ws.c: add a helper to format comma separated messagesJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  11. 2/3 War on nbsp: a bit of retreatJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  12. 3/3 War on nbsp: Add "nbsp" whitespace breakage classJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  13. 4/3 War on nbsp: teach "git apply" to check and fix nbspJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2011
  14. Daniel NyströmMay 30, 2011
  15. Matthieu MoyMay 26, 2011

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