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Re: Highlighting whitespace on removal with git diff

From
Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2010, 03:15 UTC
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The highlight isn't telling you what changed on the line. It's telling you that this added line has trailing whitespace, and your core.whitespace config value is set such that this is considered an error.
-Kevin Ballard
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Stonky Fandango wrote:
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> When I do say 'git diff', and I have added a line with a trailing
> whitespace, i get a red square box highlighting the added whitespace.
> (on the '+' diff line)
> What I want, is the reverse - so when I delete an existing whitespace,
> I get something similar, for example a blue box highlighting the
> deleted whitespace (on the '-' diff line)
> 
> Currently the only notificate I get is identical
> '-' and '+' diff lines, but no indication of the whitespace deleted
> 
> I know I can do this with graphical tools, but ideally would like some way
> using the standard console git diff - if this is possible.
> 
> I have  the following in my .gitconfig
> ---
> [color "diff"]
> whitespace = red reverse
> [core]
>  whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol,tab-in-indent
> ---
> 
> Thanks,
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  1. Stonky FandangoOct 20, 2010
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