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white spaces in a patch

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MRMark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 17, 2008, 07:31 UTC
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<dac45060812162331k19272488r4e95e0555e7a6db9@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,

It occurred to me that I prepared some patch for a git tree, and then when testing git-apply on it (on the original tree) I saw some "white spaces" errors. I know that I can run: "git --whitespace=fix apply" on my patch and than create the patch again ; in this way it will be created without white spaces.

Suppose I create a patch file (let's say : patch.txt)
1) Is there a way to check whether there are white spaces in this
file without running git-apply?
2) Is there a way to get some messages about that there are white spaces
when creating a git patch?

Regards, Mark

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