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Per-hunk whitespace cleaning in pre-commit?

Subject: Per-hunk whitespace cleaning in pre-commit?

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Jonathan del Strother· Oct 28, 2008, 12:45 UTC · lore

I like the idea of whitespace fixing in pre-commit, but I'd prefer if it only cleaned whitespace on the hunks that have changed, rather than on the entire file. Has anyone come up with a pre-commit version that does this?

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