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From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Subject: Ignoring whitespace for diff and rebase
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:59:20 +0200
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Hello!

Sometimes, I use

     git diff -b > ~/tmp/patch
     git reset --hard HEAD
     git apply ~/tmp/patch

to clean up all only-whitespace changes. But if there are files which
only differ on whitespace, git-diff produces an empty patch block
(what's the correct name for it?) like

     diff --git a/hello b/hello
     index f2aa86d..ce01362 100644

which git-apply refuses to apply. Is this behaviour of git-diff
intentional or should I try to cook up a patch?

Another combination which does not for for me is --interactive and
--whitespace for rebase:

     > git rebase -i --whitespace=strip HEAD^
     fatal: Needed a single revision
     Invalid base

Is this an implementation bug or lack of a note of incompatibility in
the docs?