From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:58:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508280956320.3317@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1125242692932-git-send-email-robfitz@273k.net>



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