Re: is there a canonical doc about how to deal with whitespace issues?

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Jun 13, 2018, 12:26 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kazegY-udjKfbkfw=ox82cfxhO5E3AEjLKkSt3LMY-DFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/8/2018 9:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >    for one of my courses, i wanted to write a section about the
> > > various techniques for dealing with whitespace issues in git, so
> > > i started
>
> What do you mean by white space issues?
> That in itself is a complex topic:

  i know ... it's not even clear that just dealing with EOL
standardization shouldn't be a topic all by itself.

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> * There are 3 different modes to ignore white space changes:
>   - trailing whitespaces,
>   - conversion of tab to space and back
>     These two are caught by the default in 'git diff --check'
>   - any white space change
>     This is interesting to ignore in git-blame[1], but sometimes
>     it is actually interesting.
>
> [1] See also
> https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chrome-infra-docs/flat/depot_tools/docs/html/git-hyper-blame.html
>
>
>
> > > making a list, things like:
> > >
> > >    - running "git diff --check"
> > >    - "git commit --cleanup=" possibilities
> > >    - config options like core.{eol,safecrlf,autocrlf}
>
> This sounds more like line ending or cross platform issues
> than whitespaces (except .eol)

  i just started a quick-and-dirty wiki page as a reference to things
that relate to whitespace:

  http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=git_whitespace

it's not even *remotely* close to comprehensive, i just wanted to start making a list. feel free to make other suggestions as i keep adding to that page.

rday

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