From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] No diff -b/-w output for all-whitespace changes
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:25:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B05C5CA.6090408@dbresearch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911192314.41542.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast wrote
> Judging from the test, this parses as
>
> Change git-diff's whitespace-ignoring modes to generate
> output only if a non-(empty patch, which git-apply
> rejects) results.
>
> which is a bit weird, isn't it? :-)
Yes, rotten wording. I meant git-apply rejects empty patches,
so let's not do that!
I chose this route rather than making git-apply more
forgiving because as currently implemented, git-diff is not
entirely ignoring whitespace when commanded to do so.
Greg
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-19 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 21:12 [PATCH] No diff -b/-w output for all-whitespace changes Greg Bacon
2009-11-19 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-19 22:14 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-19 22:25 ` Greg Bacon [this message]
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