From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:52:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Whitespace on commit
Message-ID: <7viqzr1dsp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fra7ji$7p9$1@ger.gmane.org>

"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@squeakydolphin.com> writes:

> I keep getting annoying errors when I try to commit.  Git complains that I
> have whitespace in the wrong places.  
>
> This is fine.. I even like it.  What I don't like is having to change this
> stuff manually.  Is there anyway to tell git to just fix the stuff and do
> the commit?  
>
> I've tried setting
>
> apply.whitespace = fix 
>
> in my .gitconfig, but that doesn't seem to help when doing commits.

Yeah, that is to protect yourself from whitespace mess _other people_
threw at you in a patch form.

You can ask git to fix your own stuff up, by pretending that you are that
other person who made the mess, by doing:

	git diff HEAD >P.diff
        git reset --hard HEAD
        git apply --index --whitespace=fix P.diff