From: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:44:01 GMT
Subject: Re: white spaces in a patch
Message-ID: <dac45060812170344u368ffd7fx4e86253b4a13ffc7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vej07p84i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hello,

I tried:
git apply patch1.txt
patch1.txt:34: trailing whitespace.
				
patch1.txt:53: trailing whitespace.

And
"git diff"  show differences but **does not**
highlight anything.
I tried in tchs and in Bash.

Any ideas ? does "git diff" does  highlight for anyone ?

Rgs,
Mark


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Mark Ryden" <markryde@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1) Is there a way to check whether there are white spaces in this
>> file without running git-apply?
>
> "sed -n -e '/^+.*[      ]$/p' patch.txt" perhaps?
>
>> 2) Is there a way to get some messages about that there are white spaces
>> when creating a git patch?
>
> Doesn't "git diff" highlight whitespace errors?  That way, you can catch
> errors  before you make a commit that has them.
>