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Re: [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 28, 2005, 16:58 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0508280956320.3317@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
>
> Allow the user to force a patch to be applied even though there might
> be whitespace differences.  Added a test case for the new option.

If you ignore whitespace, then you should probably accept patches that are whitespace corrupted in another way: lines missing the ' ' at the beginning. Especially lines that are empty. That's actually the most common form of whitespace corruption there is.

		Linus
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Message 3 of 5 in “New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.”
  1. 6/9 New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.Robert Fitzsimons, Aug 28, 2005
  2. 7/9 New option --ignore-applied for git-apply.Robert Fitzsimons, Aug 28, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2005
  4. A Large Angry SCMAug 28, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2005

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