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diff -b / -w and empty diffs

Subject: diff -b / -w and empty diffs

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Lars Noschinski· Dec 12, 2008, 17:57 UTC · lore

Hello!

If the difference between two files is only whitespace, "git diff -b" leads to diffs just consisting of the "diff" and "index" lines. I would like an option to suppress those files in the diff output because it breaks "git diff -b > patch; git apply patch" workflows (and often I'm just interested in "real" changes).

Is there any reason why such behaviour is not implemented yet (besides the fact that nobody cared to do it)?

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