Re: git add without whitespace

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> - Splitting whitespace & real changes to two commits is probably
> superfluous; my original goal was to make diffing the actual changes
> easier, but since 'git diff -w' exists this is moot.

Doing "whitespace clean-up" in a separate preparatory patch _is_ a
good practice.  I do not think either approach makes it harder to
do.  After all, if you had a real change on the same line that you
dropped a broken whitespace, e.g. (end-of-line shown with '$')

    -	if  (i==1) {  $
    +   if (j == 2) {$

both approaches would add the updated line.

The wsadd is about protecting _me_ from introducing new whitespace
breakages, not about helping me when fixing existing whitespace
breakages.  So from that point of view, that may not fit well to
what you are trying to do.